Comment on Rachael Dixon, 53, dies in suspected mushroom poisoning (Ballarat).

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Baku@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I don’t forage, but from what I’ve heard mushrooms are known to be difficult to correctly identify and require both base foraging knowledge and also extensive local knowledge of species native to the area. It wouldn’t surprise me if these people were going off of some American guide and ended up misidentifying a native species

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