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47of74

(18,470 posts)
Tue Jul 28, 2015, 12:18 AM Jul 2015

Using an app to ID mushrooms is a bad idea.

Stupid people are stupid.

LA PINE, Ore. (AP) — A sheriff's officer says four central Oregon residents were rushed to a hospital after they used a phone app to identify wild mushrooms but ended up consuming mushrooms that were poisonous.

A local television station reports that Deschutes County sheriff's Sgt. Doug Sullivan says deputies and medics responded Thursday afternoon to a report of poisoning on private property south of Sunriver.

He says two boys, ages 4 and 14, and a 34-year-old woman were showing symptoms of mushroom poisoning. A 15-year-old boy who also ate the mushrooms wasn't showing symptoms but was taken to the hospital as a precaution.

Sullivan said members of several families living on the property ate the poisonous mushrooms after misidentifying them as edible with a phone app.


Moral of the story: Don't use an app to identify mushrooms...
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Using an app to ID mushrooms is a bad idea. (Original Post) 47of74 Jul 2015 OP
What's edible in one part of the country can be poisonous in another mainer Jul 2015 #1

mainer

(12,138 posts)
1. What's edible in one part of the country can be poisonous in another
Wed Jul 29, 2015, 02:22 PM
Jul 2015

I know several mushroom experts who know their own regional mushrooms well. But when they go to a different part of the country, they can be wrong. Which makes any mushroom-identifying app useless.

(I suspect there'll be a lawsuit against the app maker now.)

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