Submitted 8 months ago by briongloid@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
A 53-year-old mother and personal trainer has been identified as the victim of a suspected mushroom poisoning at a wellness retreat in regional Victoria on Saturday night.
Rachael Dixon and two other people are believed to have consumed mushrooms at the Soul Barn Creative Wellbeing Centre in Clunes near Ballarat.
Really seems to be a thing in regional Victoria.
Should put it on the number plates: “Victoria - Don’t eat the Mushrooms”
Noticing “wild foraged herbs” mentioned…
I may be biased as I hate AI, but apparently there are some dodgy AI written mushroom foraging guides on sale that give wrong info/dangerous suggestions. Do you think that might be part of the rash of mushroom poisonings?
This warning goes for both food purposes and recreational purposes
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
Especially as there are still a lot of UNIDENTIFIED native species here in Victoria. Some estimate that up to 70% of native mushrooms have not yet been formally identified. Or evaluated in any way for danger or edibility. This info dates from about 10 years ago so situation might have improved since then.
Oh yeah, and the number of times I’ve heard people who obviously don’t know what they’re talking about look at an Agaricus sp. mushroom and confidently answer, “oh yeah, that’s a field mushroom. It’s good.” No. It’s not. A good number of species in that genus will fuck your liver up real good and even kill you.
This is really sad as is the previous case. There needs to be some accountability from the operator of this centre
“All fungi are edible. Some fungi are only edible once.”
Some mushrooms make Mario go bwa bwa bwa, other mushrooms make him go bwo bwo bwo.
Fully agree with this.
I wonder if the retreat provided the mushrooms of if this was extracurricular.
No1@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Yeah, OK, I’m gonna keep getting my mushrooms from a store…