XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk   
   From: mimus99@gmail.com   
      
   On Fri, 30 Jun 2017 21:13:42 GMT, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:   
      
   > In article ,   
   > Scott Lurndal  wrote:   
   >>mimus99  writes:   
   >>>On Mon, 26 Jun 2017 02:50:49 +0000 (UTC), Contrarian wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> In alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk mimus99  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> Seems Northern California got a lot of warm rain in December, which gave   
   >>>>> 'em a bumper-crop of _ Amanita phalloides _, which took fourteen people   
   out   
   >>>>> (one died).   
   >>>   
   >>>Cali has about 50 cases per year on average, one death every other year,   
   >>>liver-transplants frequently indicated.   
   >>   
   >>Where is Cali?   
   >   
   > Well, I can think of two factors offhand:   
   >   
   > (a) Where they grow wild nearby (kind of obviously), and   
   >   
   > (b) where there are many immigrants who have been used to   
   > gathering and eating wild mushrooms in their country of origin,   
   > and don't realize that the mushrooms here are different, and they   
   > don't know which of our local fungi are posonous.   
      
   That last is very often a problem (furriners don't know about poison-ivy   
   either), but unfortunately some tasty local 'shrooms (eg Lepiota naucina)   
   look quite a bit like you-know-whats (and vice-versa).   
      
   --   
      
   Always trust Usenet IDs of 'shrooms.   
      
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