The Killers
From Spore Lore · 00:23:55
Show by Spore Lore
Theo left Ep3 feeling careful, confident, and ready to forage. Maya spends this episode putting that confidence back in its box — because this one is about the mushrooms that kill people.In this episode: Galerina marginata, the small brown funeral bell that hides among honey mushrooms and enokitake; the death cap, told from home in BC — from its 1997 Mission record to fruiting with a native Garry oak near Victoria in 2015; the destroying angel, Amanita ocreata, which fruits in spring, not fall; and Amanita smithiana, the Pacific Northwest matsutake lookalike that attacks the kidneys, not the liver, with its textbook toxin still unproven. Plus the amatoxin timeline and the false recovery — why feeling better after a day is the most dangerous part — Field Notes on Amanita, Galerina, and Lepiota on sight, and Myth vs. Mycelium on cooking, taste-testing, and "deadly mushrooms are rare."Safety disclaimer is spoken in the episode. Never eat a wild mushroom unless you are one hundred percent certain what it is, and if you might have eaten a toxic mushroom, call poison control immediately — do not wait for symptoms.Next week: "Grow Your Own."
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