Worse. It is held by many that the hesitancy of people to pick mushrooms is actually a religious hangover from when mushrooms (which very much include the magic variety -- they grow where sheep live) were reserved for the clergy. Certainly there are some bad ones (and bad in combination) but the same applies to berries, leaves, roots and more besides that people harvest by the tonne.
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The hesitancy of people to pick mushrooms has more to do with the pics below than any religious or superstitious reasons. There are a few plentiful and easily recognizable species and everything else is too high risk for low reward to bother.
The false friends (never mind the growing location -- some mushrooms are fine to eat save when they are growing on certain types of wood) same applies to roots, shoots, leaves and berries though.The hesitancy of people to pick mushrooms has more to do with the pics below than any religious or superstitious reasons. There are a few plentiful and easily recognizable species and everything else is too high risk for low reward to bother.
