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Yeah, there are just so many goddamn mushrooms. A lot of "useful" acquired knowledge is just recognising genus to know where to start, knowing what's worth bothering trying to identify, and common misidentifications.
With things like parasols, oysters, and boletes, the dangerous species have fairly distinct characteristics, and if you're only 99% sure the alternatives are edible anyway. Agaricus we prefer to be completely certain. With amanitas we just don't bother, as while there are good edible species the consequences of misidentifying are a bit extreme...
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Yeah for sure, we’ve since picked up the Roger Phillips, and a couple others. Although the Roger Phillips is rather intimidating - lots of similar looking things, some innocuous, some definitely poisonous. Makes me want to be very confident if I decide to eat any of them.
Need to find a foraging sensei to show me the way.