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A rash of nearly lethal mushroom poisonings in Ohio
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#32That seems like one of the problems that can be solved with technology, i.e. by using - machine learning could be used to visually identify fungi - Portable DNA sequencing devices i.e. nanopore? https://nanoporetech.com/products/smidgion
"machine learning could be used to visually identify fungi"
Even if the recognition rate would be way better - NOPE.
There are mushrooms that look really identical - but one is deadly poisenous and the other good to eat.
Some mushrooms you can only identify by slicing them up, smelling, watch color change, look for certain small details under the top - and where they grow.
With current state of ML, you can get only a very rough classification and I doubt that changes anytime soon.
Portable DNA sequencing sounds better, but I am sceptical, if the tech is mature enough. (If it is, sign me up, but it sounds expensive, they do not even have a price tag)
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#33Url changed from https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/10/ohio-foragers-are-ac... , which points to this. I've also changed the title to a representative phrase from the body of the (current) article. (Submitted title was "Fungi Foragers Freaked"; please don't post titles like that. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html )
Thanks for that, the Ars Technica article completely glossed over the concern of false-identifications from mobile naturalist apps.
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#34Why do people like eating mushrooms from the woods? How much of it is the potential risk? There are plenty of options at the grocery store.
Based off the market rate for chanterelles my harvest this year would have cost several thousand dollars had I merely bought them from the grocer.
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Would you please stop the unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments? We had to ask you about this just recently and you've continued to do it. That's not cool. I don't want to ban you, so if you'd please fix this, we'd appreciate it.
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#36It is fall and mushroom picking time! Here is my simple advice: The first mushrooms you should get to know in your area are the deadly ones. When you find a mushroom that looks like an edible one, temper your enthusiasm and be realistic. Mistakes are made when people really want to find an edible one. If it definitely doesn't look like a deadly one and might be the edible you identify, first try a small amount and se…
That's the general advice for eating random plants, but not mushroom advice.
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#37Mushroom foraging sounds really fun but I’m too scared to eat anything that I find.
There's no wiggle room. You need to be 1000% certain of identification, if you decide to eat a mushroom. That's how I've been doing it for the last decade. I forage a lot of mushrooms, but don't consume anything I'm not sure of. Also, there are "beginner" mushrooms, that don't have any dangerous look-alikes, such as the famous "chicken of the woods" (laetiporus sulphureus). You can't really go wrong with mushroom lik…
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#38Why do people like eating mushrooms from the woods? How much of it is the potential risk? There are plenty of options at the grocery store.
There are mushrooms you effectively can't get at the grocery store. Morels are probably the best example.
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#39Not to be that guy but it's a little annoying that this has been used and safe for years in Europe but the FDA wants to gather more data but was perfectly okay supporting mandates for the covid vaccine that hadn't received near the amount of testing.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
My farmers' market has a mushroom guy that brings in things that I've never seen before. Some of them get expensive and a few I've found rather unpleasant. There is absolutely no way that I could find these things myself, so I would suggest a dealer like this if you are in an area large enough to support one. This is the dealer at my market: https://www.wildgrowthgourmetmushrooms.com/
I just wish I could find a morel, chanterelle, and porcini dealer.
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