Death Caps and Destroying Angels grow in Europe and Russia too.
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Amanita phalloides - Death Cap
Amanita bisporigera - Destroying Angel
Posted on 06/08/2017 11:35:04 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A rise in the number of wild mushroom poisonings in the Bay Area may be linked to our wet winter, state officials said.
The California Poison Control System says 14 cases were reported in five counties in December. Three of the victims required liver transplants. The youngest victim was just 18 months old.
Poison control says it usually sees just a few cases of so-called "death cap" mushroom poisonings each year. Experts say the abundance of rain likely caused more of the wild mushrooms to sprout.
Doctors say symptoms don't appear for many hours, and by then the toxicity is often absorbed into the liver.
"It can destroy your liver in a few days," Dr. Craig Smollin said. "The other issue is there is no good antedote."
Doctors advise not eating wild mushrooms unless you are professionally trained to identify them.
Mistakes happen.
When I was a young 'un back in Michigan, my parents, me, and my four younger brothers would all go out into the Michigan woods several times in the springtime to pick morels. Between the seven of us, we were usually able to collect probably close to 80 pounds of morels on each outing.
My mother sliced each morel in half, dusted it with flour and spices, and pan fried them. We would have entire meals of nothing except morels and buttered bread .. ahhhh .. great stuff!
“because they are mostly Asian noncitizens who shouldn’t be sullying my country in the first place.”
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Asians are great immigrants——they work hard,educate themselves,and don’t whine !
They hardly “sully” the country.
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(Photo: © Michael Wood)
Amanita phalloides - Death Cap
Amanita bisporigera - Destroying Angel
I also have oak trees and I found this interesting thing emerging from among the roots. Thought I had me some truffles, which would mean LOTSA money. I checked Google and they turned out to be things I now call fungus balls which are not edible although they are not poisonous.
Google is our friend.
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Amanita phalloides - Death Cap
I'm not seeing a great similarity.
In Switzerland every locale has an office you can take your mushrooms to for inspection. But every year some family gets ill or dies because they think they know everything and don’t get them checked.
Your blanket statement is even less credible than mine!
I lived in the SF Bay Area. They overrun the place. In a lot of towns it no longer feels like America. Parts of Daly City, for example.
Many show no interest in assimilating, and are arrogant. Chinese people actually believe they are the master race.
Plus, they abuse animals and spit on the sidewalk, because that is part of their culture. And no, I am not talking about Japanese folks. Talkin’ bout chinamen and Koreans mostly, but ther’re a lot of Viet dirtbags too.
As a youth I had run ins with ethnic Asian gangs.
They don’t come from my culture and they don’t defend or strengthen my culture.
Every year, I fight The Great Fungus War to keep my dogs safe.
For about 5 years, I had a ‘fairy ring’ of deadly Green Gills in the backyard.
Had to go out in the morning and root them up, before the dogs could go out.
No way to kill them off, you just have to let them run their course.
I hecking HATE mushrooms...all of them.
You would if you were stoned like half of Californica when you went mushroom hunting.
A rise in the number of wild mushroom poisonings in the Bay Area may be linked to our wet winter....
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And stupid humans.
It’s called picking the wrong Mushrooms and eating them..
I read about this case about a week to 10 days ago. Yes, the child was given the mushrooms by her parents, and she died.
But dude, they like, both got that umbrella thing on top of the post....
Sorry to hear that, Sal! I love ‘em.
I was so happy to see one of my favorite edible shrooms growing in my yard a few years ago. It only grows near Aspen trees and usually not near civilization even with Aspens. My (late) Mom fenced off an area many years ago to keep the elk off of her tree and shrub neighbor screen. Lots of wilder type plants found there way to it. The Aspen Scaber shroom was the topper.
I call that little 10X20 wild space Mom’s Wilderness Area. ;-)
It has been a few decades now but I’ve been pretty darned wasted and even then I could tell the difference between metallic green and sienna brown. lol
LOL
I think you should write and illustrate some shroom hunting guides. Save a life! ;^)
Dr Burt Berkson, MD reversed and regenerated livers damaged with poison mushrooms using IV alpha lipoic acid. He regenerated livers numerous times with this procedure.
The first time he did it at a Cleveland, OH hospital where he was a resident. The man he was assigned to watch die lived and did not require a liver transplant after the alpha lipoic acid treatment. The hospital told him that if he ever did an unauthorized treatment again, he would be fired.
A short time later a family was admitted to the hospital after eating poison mushrooms. Two were worse off that the guy earlier. Dr Berkson treated them all with alpha lipoic acid. They all recovered and the hospital said, you are fired.
His friend at NIV who had been supplying him the alpha lipoic acid called the hospital and told them they couldn't fire him...we are going to fund a study using alpha lipoic acid to treat diseased livers in your hospital and Dr Berkson will head the study.
http://drberkson.com/
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