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SHROOM-DOOM

Mushrooms are many things, but maybe most infamously, they are deceptive. Many a forager and shroom enjoyer have met their doom simply through reasonable assumptions and easy mistakes, but here in the Shroomroom, we don’t take chances.

My job as the Shroomroom ringmaster is to make sure my circus monkeys aren’t chomping down on any old cap they find in the woods. Pope Clement VII, Buddha, Roman emperor Claudius AND his son Britannicus, all met their end at the hands of our fungal forefathers. We aren’t any smarter than these old dead dudes but we do have unrestricted internet access and therefore a responsibility to do better.

So pay close attention to our line-up of suspects, your life may depend on it...

Death Cap

Taking the title of both the most well known and most deadly mushroom on earth, the Death Cap and it's obvious name have been dropping bodies since the invention of the cooking pan. Only dangerous upon consumption, the Death Cap's biggest strength is it's natural likeness to far more delicious delicacies. It's closest lookalike may be the Paddy Straw Mushroom, one of the most widely consumed mushrooms around the globe, used in a lot of east Asian dishes. This mistake makes for a large majority of death cap incidents. Distinctions to look out for (if you refer to the above image) can be found in it's greenish/brownish hue, the tight gills that DO NOT attach to the distinct line running up the stem, and with age will give off an aroma that can only be described as 'the smell of death'.

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