grace
A photographer whose hobby has been photographing mushrooms of the rarest kind spotted this fungus known as Poison Fire Coral Fungus which resembles a mushroom that is used for making tea and has medicinal value, in Japan and Korea. There have been cases reported of deaths caused by consuming this fungus mistaken for the harmless mushroom in Japan and Korea. This fungus is native to Japan and Korea having travelled miles and now seen in the deep forests of Cairns, Australia.
It is reported that the toxins from this fungus, if touched, can be absorbed through the skin with dire consequences. And if eaten there would be the normal symptoms that are displayed for poison consumption leading to failure or organs, shrinking of the brain and final death, if left untreated.
The only mushrooms that I have tasted are the Oyster and button mushrooms and would never risk eating anything as bizarre looking as this one.
Image Credit:
https://in.news.yahoo.com/brain-shrinking-killer-fungus-cannot-074353377.html
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Have you ever eaten mushrooms having colours other than white?
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Yes
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No
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Best to stay away from mushrooms you don’t know
Why go for stuff that cannot be relied on!!?
Hey they look like carrots growing upwards though.
They do look beautiful don’t they. I would not mind having them just for their looks.
Best not to eat what you don’t know.
Foolish of anyone risking like this. There is enough safe food available in the world.
Noted, I don’t gather mushroom outside.
We have to be very careful as even white mushrooms are also poisonous sometimes.
I’m very careful about mushrooms. I don’t collect mushrooms because I know them too little.
Mushroom are seen in our garden sometimes but we do not eat them
There are quite a few very toxic mushrooms growing here too … I don’t pick them myself because I don’t know them enough …
As I have said in my post I eat only the two that are tested and proved and which are sold.
Exactly … so I do, dear Grace