• python@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    As a kid, I was taught that any gilled mushroom is an automatic “absolutely NOT” and any spongy mushroom is okay, if I recognize it and it doesn’t turn blue when I cut into it. Seems like that rule of thumb is holding up here

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      11 days ago

      It’s important to know that any rule like that doesn’t necessarily hold up if you move just a few hundred kilometers.

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      10 days ago

      The blue ones are the fun ones.

      For legal reasons: not every blue-ing reaction has to mean Psilocybin, and not everything with Psilocybin has to be non-toxic. Don’t eat random shrooms and expect to see anything cooler than the ER. At the very least, get a reliable source of info about how to find local Psilocybe and friends, and don’t eat anything you aren’t 105% sure of what it is.