The spasm was severe, and I dashed for the bathroom, barely made it to the commode, and had projectile vomiting with such force that it literally splattered all over the room. This guy's account of a 2002 poisoning paints a sufficiently rich tapestry:Įverything seemed fine until about 20 minutes after the meal, when I was walking through the living room and suddenly felt like I had been kicked in the gut by a mule. Also, luckily, the jack-o'-lantern will not kill you.
You should never eat anything you are remotely unsure of, though chanterelles truly are distinctive to even most novice foragers. They tend to grow in fused clusters, their flesh is never white, and they have thinner gills and different cap margins than the chanterelle. Jack-o'-lanterns are the closest-looking poisonous mushrooms to chanterelles, but they can be easily distinguished by most foragers. They were speckling a hill of dense oak woods, preferring dead stumps and downed wood over the open forest floor. Last weekend, I went out foraging somewhere in Marin County, where I found clusters of oyster mushrooms (delicious), a few death caps (does what the name says), and a huge flush of jack-o'-lanterns. Few species capture the essence of what makes the fungal kingdom so special like the jack-o'-lantern, which has incredible stats. Seriously considering the networked ways they live and defy categorization presents new radical possibilities for organization and crisis resistance, an especially enticing trait in our time of collapse. They are infinitely adaptable, only halfway understood, and they will probably outlive the human species. They can break down the most toxic of substances, and pop up in the oddest of places ( underwater, from this guy's carpet, next to your houseplant). They seem like plants, but are more closely related to humans than anything with leaves.
While many species have been meaningfully domesticated, one of the most seductive aspects of fungi is how they upend so much accumulated societal wisdom. It follows that many of those people, myself included, would be drawn to mushrooms: I was fungipilled by Defector's Giri Nathan. While pandemic-induced bouts of protracted inside time have led many to think, "I should buy a house in Boise," the same circumstances have led many more people to go outside, walk around, and look at stuff. You have made the mistake of harvesting and eating the poisonous western jack-o'-lantern mushroom ( Omphalotus olivascens), one of the most beguiling and mysterious mushrooms the fungal world has to offer.Įveryone seems to have gotten into mushrooms in the past two years. complex, and very singular." These ones are bigger and more orange-tinged than those you've seen in the grocery store, but they smell good and you've heard the chanterelle has no obvious poisonous lookalikes, so you eagerly harvest them, return home, and munch the mushrooms. You think you have found the chanterelle, among the most prized and popular mushrooms, described in the legendary All That The Rain Promises And More as the "queen seductress: fruity, peppery. You are walking through the forest on an autumn afternoon, eyes low, when out of the underbrush you spot a bolt of frilly, apricot-colored protuberances.
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