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Mushrooms (mander.xyz)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 weeks ago (20 children)

Anyone knows what that allergic reaction thing references? Sounds interesting

[–] [email protected] 149 points 2 weeks ago (19 children)

The part about them being too closely related to Humans sounds like BS, but there is a mushroom that is perfectly safe the first few times you eat it, and then eventually makes your immune system attack your blood cells.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxillus_involutus

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

There's a Paul Stamets video where he talks about how mushrooms are so closely related to humans that we both fight off similar pathogens and that is why they are so useful to us for medicine (penicillin for example.)

[–] Klear 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

TIL Stamets is named after a real mycologist.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I was thinking, "he is a real mycologist," before I figured out to whom you were referring.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, I don't know if @[email protected] is a mycologist but he's certainly named after one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Named after an Astromycologist anyway. I try to distance myself as much as I can from the Union busting real world mushroom man

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