Tasting and spitting Amanita phalloides (death cap) ☠️
Disclaimer: this fungi contains deadly amatoxins, absolutely do not consume it!
Couldn’t resist the opportunity to taste and spit this formidable mushroom! Touching or nibble and spitting mushrooms is safe in terms of mycotoxins, ingestion is what causes harm.
For some genus’ like Lactarius or Russula this can be an aid to ID too - it’s totally unnecessary for the death cap, but this is just for ‘fun’ for me, and a way to further demonstrate that unless you (or your pet) are gobbling up mushrooms willynilly, we don’t need to be quite so wary of them just existing!
Please do not try this, unless you are experienced.
