its white and brown generic looking mushrooms that should be avoided while foraging for novices, but there are lots of easily recognizable species too. Chicken of the Woods has no lookalikes for example, and all you have to do to distinguish a Morel from a False Morel is slice it down the middle.
@@cloudthief8918, Amanita family mushrooms have a number of "tells" that make it pretty obvious. There are only a couple of Amanita species that are safely and desirable edible, such as the American Caesar mushroom, A. Jacksonii, but amateurs should leave those to *experienced* foragers.
@@simonkoeman3310 what do you mean? Humans didnt figure out over hundreds of years whats safe to eat? They didnt need to actively “document” to pass down the knowledge. Dunno what youre thinking ?
As someone with death caps growing in my garden, I really didn't get why anyone would pick them: puffballs aren't tasty enough to actively seek out, straw mushrooms aren't found in Europe, and while you can also confuse them for wild champignon... you can just buy those. Really, not worth the risk for anyone that knows. Then I went to install a Wi-Fi router in a refugee camp, saw a multilanguage poster warning of death caps, and understood.
For real. There’s so many better mushrooms and they’re much more distinguishable than most Amanitas. Morels, lion’s mane, and chanterelles are perfect to seek out because they’re easily recognizable and identifiable and have few poisonous lookalikes, at least in my experience.
Honestly, confusing death caps with puffballs means one has no idea what they are doing. They are very different to anyone who REALLY knows about mushrooms.
@@scivolanto Beginning foragers or those who are on the brink of starvation do not have much choice if they can only recognize the basic image in their head and go "Close enough" that their brain will MAKE them take that mushroom. As for the other person, not everyone wants to buy - some people are looking for ways to save money in a more dire economy. The more you can save, the better. That is why they will go out - even into their own garden - and pick the mushrooms they see locally growing. Ignorance will do a lot harm.
Wild Champignons taste MUUUCH better than the shop ones and I personally find puffballs' taste fantastic. There are easy ways to rule out death caps, tho.
when in doubt, toss it out and print print print! if you have any mushrooms that you aren't quite sure of, cut the cap off and place it on a damp papertowel to get a sporeprint, those are much more distinguishable than the mere outward appearance. deathcaps have a light or even white sporeprint, where most edible mushrooms are going to have a darker sporeprint
You guys should stop scaring people about mushrooms. I've been eating random mushrooms for years and I never got sick even once, except for just a few slight discomforts in the digestive system and some explosive number-twos...
@@Alfred-Neuman Bad Advice best ignored. You might have been lucky , besides which you do not know how your telling "Mushrooms are fine" so you should not advise general carelessness.
Actually, when it comes to identifying mushrooms (schematic) drawings are often more helpful than photos, as it is easier to point out distinctive features, which can vary in actual specimen. They could have pointed out those distinctive features, though.
well, it is a slow and painful death, its also a case of the famous "you are already dead" quote, because if you wait too long to seek treatment until its really getting bad for you, there is no reliable cure or treatment and your best outcome is permanent severe liver damage or getting put on the liver transplant list. Most people at that stage just die though. This is one of those poisonings where a full recovery is not possible unless you immediately recognize you ate a deadly shroom and go get your stomach pumped right away.
Mushrooms that get cooked by accident would probably be less toxic than those that are actively sought out as poison & mixed into wine for murder. The method of delivery would definitely have an impact on the toxicity.
It's effects mimic radiation poisoning in course. First flu like effects, then this goes away, then horrible accute effects where multiple organs fail and worse.
In summary: you ate a death cap mushroom. You will not realize that you did until symptoms shows. The symptoms themselves are a signal that it is already too late to do anything about it. See the problem here?
I remember few years back after my wife died, I was left alone with 3 kids. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Got diagnosed with bipolar. Not until a friend recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment changed my life for better. I can proudly say i'm totally clean for 6 years and still counting. Always look to nature for solution to tough problems, Shrooms are phenomenal.
I love hearing great life changing stories like this. I want to become a mycologist because honestly mushrooms are the best form of medicine (most especially the psychedelic ones) There are so many people today used magic mushrooms to ween off of SSRI medication- its amazing! Years back i wrote an entire essay about psychedelics. they saved you from death buddy, lets be honest here.
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When I was a teenager, my parents went foraging and found some delicious lepiota, which we cooked and ate. The next morning my mom saw a picture of a death cap, freaked out thinking we might have eaten one, and rushed us all to the hospital - where emergency bloodwork revealed we had indeed eaten lepiota. The next day my dad went foraging by himself and returned late at night - with a real death cap, so that we would learn the difference.
For anyone wondering, a distinguishing feature of the family Amanitaceae - which contains mushrooms like the death cap, destroying angel, and fly agaric - is the "cup-like sac" as described around 1:07 in the video. This egg-like sac that it grows out of is technically called the volva and can be partially or fully buried in the ground. This is why it's important to remove the entire fruiting body of mushroom out of the ground to properly identify it. If there is a volva, it is generally not something to eat. It is a common myth that mushrooms should be cut at the stem when foraging to preserve their numbers - it makes no difference because the majority of the organism that bears these mushroom "fruits" actually lives as a mycelium in the ground or in another organism, dead or alive, like a tree for example.
There are many edible and delicious Amanitas, notably all Caesareae and Vaginatae, so saying that "if there's a volva, it is definitely not something to eat", is completely inaccurate.
@@emilka2033 Your advice is definitely good for inexperienced mushroom hunters. Someone who is only beginning to learn about Amanitas, should probably leave all of them alone for the time being 👍
@katharina... yes, better to stay away from Amanitas altogether as a newbie. Though honestly, inexperienced foragers should always check with an experienced shroomer before eating anything. There is no room for error with mushrooms.
My recovery journey was greatly enhanced by the therapeutic benefits of mushrooms. Other psychedelics like DMT and LSD have also proven to be remarkable.
Here in Finland, it seems that everyone grows up foraging for mushrooms. As a non-native, I have a simple rule: If it's growing somewhere I can see it, and the natives haven't picked it, it's either deadly or not worth the effort.
It is actually much more than that and it was not even in the video - the thing is very sneaky! 1) The mushroom has a nice smell and slightly sweet taste so if you pick it by accident and then cook and eat it with other mushrooms then you will not sence anything suspicious. 2) The toxins are quite potent. Eating a single whole full sized mushroom is well enough to kill you. Eating a quarter of a small hat is enough to cause some damage and for some people it can be life threatening. 3) The toxins have a very slow delayed action of 6..12 hours before first symptoms arise and around 24 hours before you really start to feel sick so it will be quite some time before you think about going to a hospital. You will most likely only do it the next day. 4) By the time you get to a hospital you will already have a critical liver damage so you will need immediate proper care but if you get to some remote hospital in the middle of nowhere with just one or two doctors and with no automated biochemical blood test equipment then they can get fooled by the fact that the kind of a liver failure the toxins cause will actually make you feel better again for a while by the time you get there. There will also be no yellow eyes or any other obvious signs of liver issues making it even harder to diagnose unless they remeber to ask you enough questions or there will be other sick members of your family to suspect mushroom poisoning. So the doctor who see you first needs to be quite an experienced and overall a very good one or by the time they figure out what's going on it will be after at least another half a day when you start to feel bad again and by that time your liver will be well beyound any hope of saving. The doctors mostly work in big cities but that is probably not where you are going to be if you just got a mushroom poisoning. 5) If that delay is allowed to happen then there will be nothing they can do at that point. By the time they can start looking for a new liver for you and start feeding you through an IV most other organs in your body will be on their way out as well. Getting any transplants delivered to you or transporting you to a central hospital will take at least half a day if not more so by the time they will find a donor you will most likely already be dead. Basically they will inject you with some painkillers and look at you dying slowly and painfully. 6) If they manage to figure it out immediately but enough time has passed while you traveled to them then you still have a good chance of dying because of complications caused by longterm damage to multiple organs. Basically the only way for you to have a good chance to survive eating the mushroom with little to no damage is to go to a hospital pretty much immediately after trying to empty your stomack and to tell the doctor that you probably ate it. In any other case the only thing that can save you is the limited dose of the toxin. If you ate enough of the mushroom in one go without knowing it then you will most likely die after 3..4 days of pain and suffering.
As a simple highschool student ,Ted Ed has helped me and millions understand so much about the world and making it more interesting than it already was.
Isn't the disadvantage found in the fact that mushrooms must expend energy to create these compounds in the first place? It probably isn't a strong pressure, but I imagine it should stop an entire species evolving a trait like this randomly. In which case it'd be a safe assumption that this compound is or used to be of some use to the mushroom. I could be wrong, so definitely take this with a grain of salt. But I doubt that scientists would still be studying it if something as simple as "there's no disadvantage" is the solution anyway.
@@Gamesaucer Nope sometimes they just pop out those mutations. Or it could be that they evolved to literally just kill humans because we eat everything without transmitting spores. Maybe we are the only predators and other animals just know not to eat those. It is just evolutionary the best startegy to be as toxic to humans as possible.
in god of war ragnarok, you can see little blue mushroom creatures that are around the dwarves house. Weird detail because the game never brings them up
A long time ago, about forty years, when I was five. My family and I lived in Italy a couple of mushroom hunters, who were very experienced picked deathcaps by mistake and died. I have to say that that put me off trying my hand at it for life. Much as I love wild mushrooms.
Probably, but it's not the point. the video is supposed to inform us about a very dangerous species, not part of a campaign to mitigate it's victims. It's supposed to be interesting and stylish, as those videos usually are. You can probably search if it spikes your interest since there's no problem to accessing the web
@@Sum_equals_1 I'd imagine that how something looks is important information, so if "informing us about a dangerous species" is the goal, it would have been a good idea to show something less stylised. I'd advocate against a photo, though. It's easy to get a wrong impression from a photo because you can't control what details a photo shows. This is why foraging guides typically use drawings rather than photos, too. In a drawing, every detail is placed with care so you can be sure that everything you're seeing is a way to help identify it, and the details that don't matter can be hidden. This minimises the risk of misidentifying mushrooms due to paying attention to the wrong things.
So they show some photos, someone watches the video, picks and eats death caps, and sues this channel. By not showing them at all they avoid legal exposure.
It takes 6 to 24 hours for symptoms to appear, and it can be days before death takes place. Yes you can take a few, but it still is not a sudden death.
The issue is more that the distinctive symptoms only show once you have suffered irreversible organ damage. The title is kinda misleading but the important part is that once you realize you've been poisoned it's too late and your only hope is a liver transplant.
My father was a mushroom afficianado, but there were only about three species he would choose to eat. He always said, if in doubt, don't even touch it! So it was a rare treat on our camping trips when we'd have wild mushrooms.
I see them regularly when foraging for mushrooms. I do not even touch them. Since I only pick mushrooms of the Boletus genus, my biggest possible mistake is to pick the bitter bolete. I never took this type home, it can easily be identified by closer inspection once picked and examined properly.
Tylopilus Felleus, the bitter bolete, can look similar to the Botulis Edibilus ( porcini, cep) but usually has a vaguely pinkish pore surface and a skinnier stem. I've yet to find an actual Porcini here in Southern New England but I've come across numerous bitter boletes. A quick niggle and spit test will confirm the difference but you better have some water and maybe a breath mint with you to kill the taste, which will otherwise stay with you for a half hour! I have found plenty of other good edible bolete species around here......
When I first learned how to identify wild mushrooms, my more knowledgeable and informed teachers, first taught me how to identify the toxic ones, and anamitas were at the top of the list.
Not sure if this is true, but I once read that the reason some mushrooms are toxic is sort of random. It's because of the nutrients they consume, and the toxins they produce are just a byproduct of whatever they use to grow. Also, the mushroom is pretty much just a fruit of the organism. Picking mushrooms will not hurt the huge network of mycelium underground, just as picking an apple will not harm the apple tree.
Because if you try to teach people to identify poisonous mushrooms, you will be liable when they fail to do so. If there’s any doubt, find an expert. They’ve had the proper education. You do not want amateurs trying to make the distinction based on a TED cartoon.
A quick trip to wikipedia suggests that mushrooms are 23x more deadly to humans than sharks. Someone call Steven Spielberg, I have a script I would like to pitch him.
I am really keen on these TedEd videos because of their informativity and impressiveness. The way the processes were explained and visualized was educational and will stay in my mind for a long time. Mushrooms are among my favorite foods, especially when I gather them with my hands. My parents tell me all the time to be attentive and not to mix poisonous and not poisonous mushrooms since there are ones that are highly similar. My uncle is an expert in distinguishing them since he has lived all his life in a village, and he always assists me in doing so:)) Still, with understanding the existence and the consequences of poisonous mushrooms, I also wonder how did our ancestors discover which plants, herbs, or mushrooms had medicinal properties, and was this process purely trial and error, or did they rely on other forms of intuition or observation? These are questions that need to be thoroughly examined.
if you wait until major symptoms start, its often too late to be healed. Death Caps tend to first show very mild symptoms several hours after that can easily be mistaken for just stomach upset, the victim improves shortly after, and then almost a day later the real symptoms start to show. At that point there is no antidote or cure because the majority of the toxins have bound themselves to your liver and kidneys and they are starting to die. IV can try to mitigate and filter out the stragglers, but at this point most victims die or are going to need a liver transplant
I think the reason why they are so dangerous is that they are so common. I have a bunch of them growing in my front lawn and I can't get rid of them. These things are everywhere
This video has interesting facts but it does villainize deathcaps slightly. They’re quite easy to avoid and foragers shouldn’t have to be ‘on guard’ no mushroom is out to get us! Please don’t let this video scare you off mushrooms! Also an ID section of this video would’ve helped. Makes it a bit smoke and mirrors and further induces mycophobia
The only one I'm eating is the one with a yellow sponge at the underside of the cap that turns blue when pressed or otherwise damaged. That sounds like it should be highly toxic but is actually edible and so distinctive that you can't mistake it for anything else...
Your general description of Bolete mushrooms, most but not all of which will have some degree of color change when bruised or perhaps cut open, and a few that don't bruise at all, applies to *hundreds* of species of mushrooms in North America and even more around the world , some of which can make you quite sick with several days of vomiting and diarrhea, though there are only 1 or 2 that could likely cause death. Many boletes are simply too bland and mushy to be desirable as edibles, and others taste incredibly bitter, so you really need to be keying in on a half a dozen features, and associated trees/habitats, in order to separate the good from the bad. There is an online " bolete filter" website that will help you with this.
found a bunch of these in my and my neighbor’s yard once, including in their dog’s pen. got some gloves and dug them out, bagged ‘em up and threw them away. never seen them before onour property in the 4 decades my family has lived here, and i’ve not seen them since. it was really odd.
Also, Amanita phalloides is said to be quite tasty while eating it, so you won't suspect anything until it is too late. Unlike other deadly amanitas (like Amanita verna), which is said to taste really bad. I've been gathering mushrooms for 2 decades, but I play it super safe, if I have 0.1% doubt of what it is, I am not eating it.
Once upon a time: A family collected mushrooms in the forest. To make shure they gave the dog a potion and waited. Nothing happened and thus they had dinner. Suddenly the dog started to whine and lay on the floor. In panic they went to the hospital and had their stomachs emptied and pumped out. When they came back, pale and weak, the dog had 4 puppies
We pick and eat chanterelles in Oregon. There is only one other mushroom in the area that kinds sorta resembles them but it’s not hard to distinguish apart, and if you eat it, it’ll give you an upset stomach but it almost certainly won’t kill you.
I'm pretty sure me and my best friend ate and vomited some of these out as 15 year olds right before we played Halo 3 for the first time after it came out on the Xbox 360
This is why I only forage for mushrooms at the supermarket
I just hope someone doesn't get the idea to toss wild mushrooms into the pile
its white and brown generic looking mushrooms that should be avoided while foraging for novices, but there are lots of easily recognizable species too. Chicken of the Woods has no lookalikes for example, and all you have to do to distinguish a Morel from a False Morel is slice it down the middle.
tbf it's pretty easy to avoid these.
@@cloudthief8918, Amanita family mushrooms have a number of "tells" that make it pretty obvious. There are only a couple of Amanita species that are safely and desirable edible, such as the American Caesar mushroom, A. Jacksonii, but amateurs should leave those to *experienced* foragers.
Tbh corps doing the food is pretty underappreciated. I don't think we'd have come this far individually
Shout out to our ancestors who ate all kinds of mushroom to document which ones are safe to eat and which ones we should avoid at all costs 🗣️
LoL
They weren't thinking about that, they were just hungry
I respect the first person to eat a mushroom…
@@simonkoeman3310 what do you mean? Humans didnt figure out over hundreds of years whats safe to eat? They didnt need to actively “document” to pass down the knowledge. Dunno what youre thinking ?
@@nerfgunner2327he is joking, jeez, ppl don’t have humour these days
Death caps don't leave 'mushroom' for error!
That was terrible. Please take my upvote.
😂😂
Take my like!
I bet that joke killed it
Last thing I’d say as it kills me 😅
As someone with death caps growing in my garden, I really didn't get why anyone would pick them: puffballs aren't tasty enough to actively seek out, straw mushrooms aren't found in Europe, and while you can also confuse them for wild champignon... you can just buy those. Really, not worth the risk for anyone that knows.
Then I went to install a Wi-Fi router in a refugee camp, saw a multilanguage poster warning of death caps, and understood.
For real. There’s so many better mushrooms and they’re much more distinguishable than most Amanitas. Morels, lion’s mane, and chanterelles are perfect to seek out because they’re easily recognizable and identifiable and have few poisonous lookalikes, at least in my experience.
Honestly, confusing death caps with puffballs means one has no idea what they are doing. They are very different to anyone who REALLY knows about mushrooms.
@@scivolanto Beginning foragers or those who are on the brink of starvation do not have much choice if they can only recognize the basic image in their head and go "Close enough" that their brain will MAKE them take that mushroom.
As for the other person, not everyone wants to buy - some people are looking for ways to save money in a more dire economy. The more you can save, the better. That is why they will go out - even into their own garden - and pick the mushrooms they see locally growing. Ignorance will do a lot harm.
Wild Champignons taste MUUUCH better than the shop ones and I personally find puffballs' taste fantastic.
There are easy ways to rule out death caps, tho.
No one replying even read the entire comment and all missed the whole point of it...
when in doubt, toss it out
and print print print! if you have any mushrooms that you aren't quite sure of, cut the cap off and place it on a damp papertowel to get a sporeprint, those are much more distinguishable than the mere outward appearance. deathcaps have a light or even white sporeprint, where most edible mushrooms are going to have a darker sporeprint
*Dude is on telegram as**
@TRIPCLAN
Absolutely.
And don't even bother with anything that has a 'Volva' that is a feature of both the most deadly mushrooms, in the UK at least.
You guys should stop scaring people about mushrooms.
I've been eating random mushrooms for years and I never got sick even once, except for just a few slight discomforts in the digestive system and some explosive number-twos...
@@Alfred-Neuman Bad Advice best ignored.
You might have been lucky , besides which you do not know how your telling "Mushrooms are fine" so you should not advise general carelessness.
This video must have shown photos/videos of the actual mushroom, to help people recognize it.
That's what I thought also!
Or at least tell them how to distinguish them from other mushrooms
They possibility omitted actual photos of death caps for liability reasons.
@@GreedoGangrene What liability? They don't have to claim _every_ death cap looks _exactly_ like
Actually, when it comes to identifying mushrooms (schematic) drawings are often more helpful than photos, as it is easier to point out distinctive features, which can vary in actual specimen. They could have pointed out those distinctive features, though.
1:12 "This girl is already dead, she just doesn't know it yet" 🥕🐡🐡
💀
It sounds like this kills you fairly slowly… certainly not “before you know what’s happening”
well, it is a slow and painful death, its also a case of the famous "you are already dead" quote, because if you wait too long to seek treatment until its really getting bad for you, there is no reliable cure or treatment and your best outcome is permanent severe liver damage or getting put on the liver transplant list. Most people at that stage just die though. This is one of those poisonings where a full recovery is not possible unless you immediately recognize you ate a deadly shroom and go get your stomach pumped right away.
Mushrooms that get cooked by accident would probably be less toxic than those that are actively sought out as poison & mixed into wine for murder. The method of delivery would definitely have an impact on the toxicity.
@@skrubknight884
> its also a case of the famous "you are already dead"
NANI?!?!
It's effects mimic radiation poisoning in course. First flu like effects, then this goes away, then horrible accute effects where multiple organs fail and worse.
In summary: you ate a death cap mushroom. You will not realize that you did until symptoms shows. The symptoms themselves are a signal that it is already too late to do anything about it. See the problem here?
This is why I only forage mushrooms from a can.
Ah... a master hunter 😅❤❤
@@diamondcascadeblackspring7260 * Gatherer
Dork
@@MaekarManastormbuuut still a *living* dork
I'll pray for your tastebuds. You poor unfortunate soul. 😢
I remember few years back after my wife died, I was left alone with 3 kids. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Got diagnosed with bipolar. Not until a friend recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment changed my life for better. I can proudly say i'm totally clean for 6 years and still counting. Always look to nature for solution to tough problems, Shrooms are phenomenal.
I love hearing great life changing stories like this. I want to become a mycologist because honestly mushrooms are the best form of medicine (most especially the psychedelic ones) There are so many people today used magic mushrooms to ween off of SSRI medication- its amazing! Years back i wrote an entire essay about psychedelics. they saved you from death buddy, lets be honest here.
Hey mates! Can you help with the source? I suffer severe anxiety, panic and depression and I usually take prescription medicine, but they don't always help. Where can I find those psilocybin mushrooms? I'm really interested in treating my mental health without Rxs. I live in Australia don't know much about these. I'm so glad they helped you. I can't wait to get them too. Really need a reliable source 🙏
YES sure of mycologist Predroshrooms. I have the same experience with anxiety, addiction. Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
Where do I reach this dude? If possible can I find him on Google
Yes he's Predroshrooms. I know few friends who no longer suffer ptsd and anxiety with the help of shrooms. Never had to take shrooms after then.
I appreciate how you combine scientific research with practical experiences. It’s incredibly enlightening
*Psychedelic definitely have undeniable benefits to deal with PTSTD,ADDICTION,TRAUMA AND DEPRESSION ETC.The experience gave me freedom.I was Able to get shrooms,dmt,edibles,lsd etc from this licensed mycologist who ships to my location without hassel*
*Dude is on telegram as**
@TRIPCLAN
When I was a teenager, my parents went foraging and found some delicious lepiota, which we cooked and ate. The next morning my mom saw a picture of a death cap, freaked out thinking we might have eaten one, and rushed us all to the hospital - where emergency bloodwork revealed we had indeed eaten lepiota.
The next day my dad went foraging by himself and returned late at night - with a real death cap, so that we would learn the difference.
The sound design and music in this episode! Outstanding!! *Chef's kiss*
For anyone wondering, a distinguishing feature of the family Amanitaceae - which contains mushrooms like the death cap, destroying angel, and fly agaric - is the "cup-like sac" as described around 1:07 in the video. This egg-like sac that it grows out of is technically called the volva and can be partially or fully buried in the ground.
This is why it's important to remove the entire fruiting body of mushroom out of the ground to properly identify it. If there is a volva, it is generally not something to eat. It is a common myth that mushrooms should be cut at the stem when foraging to preserve their numbers - it makes no difference because the majority of the organism that bears these mushroom "fruits" actually lives as a mycelium in the ground or in another organism, dead or alive, like a tree for example.
There are many edible and delicious Amanitas, notably all Caesareae and Vaginatae, so saying that "if there's a volva, it is definitely not something to eat", is completely inaccurate.
@@katharina... yes, should say "generally" not "definitely"
@@emilka2033 Your advice is definitely good for inexperienced mushroom hunters. Someone who is only beginning to learn about Amanitas, should probably leave all of them alone for the time being 👍
@katharina... yes, better to stay away from Amanitas altogether as a newbie. Though honestly, inexperienced foragers should always check with an experienced shroomer before eating anything. There is no room for error with mushrooms.
@@emilka2033 I completely agree 👍
Amatoxin is a cyclopeptide, but has a bizarre sulfone bridge between a Cys and Trp residue. Fascinating to natural product chemists.
Thanks, Pharmacists , also: though non- toxics better 😂😂
My recovery journey was greatly enhanced by the therapeutic benefits of mushrooms. Other psychedelics like DMT and LSD have also proven to be remarkable.
Hey mate, do you know where i can source one?
doctorcyruss is your guy, got all kinds of psychedelics and the most knowledgeable that i know.
Is he on telgram?
Yes and tiktok, highly recommended.
It's amazing how they work better than antidepressants and serve as recreational purpose as well.
Using picture of the grim reaper with a cap is good analogy for toxic mushrom
Not what an analogy is
"Ohhhh, you look like a fun guy."
I love the 90s melodrama music.
5:15 - The Joelcap, Scientific - Vargskelethor
Like always the animation and sound design are top notch!
Here in Finland, it seems that everyone grows up foraging for mushrooms. As a non-native, I have a simple rule: If it's growing somewhere I can see it, and the natives haven't picked it, it's either deadly or not worth the effort.
The Finnish Filter. Handy.
I literally cooked and ate mushroom risotto yesterday. Thanks guys!
Well we can assume you’re alive and well.
same and I ate the leftovers today 😭😭 and then thay said that symptoms take days to show up 💀
As opposed to figuratively cooked?
More *mysterious historical content* such as this please ♡ so fitting for Halloween
It feels weird being this early to a TED-Ed video
I bust early every time
Yep
i have no idea what to reply
It kinda does 😅
Strangely relatable
Why is this poisonous mushroom so deadly?
Because it looks a lot like a non-poisonous mushroom.
Thank you for coming to my TedTalk.
It is actually much more than that and it was not even in the video - the thing is very sneaky!
1) The mushroom has a nice smell and slightly sweet taste so if you pick it by accident and then cook and eat it with other mushrooms then you will not sence anything suspicious.
2) The toxins are quite potent. Eating a single whole full sized mushroom is well enough to kill you. Eating a quarter of a small hat is enough to cause some damage and for some people it can be life threatening.
3) The toxins have a very slow delayed action of 6..12 hours before first symptoms arise and around 24 hours before you really start to feel sick so it will be quite some time before you think about going to a hospital. You will most likely only do it the next day.
4) By the time you get to a hospital you will already have a critical liver damage so you will need immediate proper care but if you get to some remote hospital in the middle of nowhere with just one or two doctors and with no automated biochemical blood test equipment then they can get fooled by the fact that the kind of a liver failure the toxins cause will actually make you feel better again for a while by the time you get there. There will also be no yellow eyes or any other obvious signs of liver issues making it even harder to diagnose unless they remeber to ask you enough questions or there will be other sick members of your family to suspect mushroom poisoning.
So the doctor who see you first needs to be quite an experienced and overall a very good one or by the time they figure out what's going on it will be after at least another half a day when you start to feel bad again and by that time your liver will be well beyound any hope of saving. The doctors mostly work in big cities but that is probably not where you are going to be if you just got a mushroom poisoning.
5) If that delay is allowed to happen then there will be nothing they can do at that point. By the time they can start looking for a new liver for you and start feeding you through an IV most other organs in your body will be on their way out as well. Getting any transplants delivered to you or transporting you to a central hospital will take at least half a day if not more so by the time they will find a donor you will most likely already be dead. Basically they will inject you with some painkillers and look at you dying slowly and painfully.
6) If they manage to figure it out immediately but enough time has passed while you traveled to them then you still have a good chance of dying because of complications caused by longterm damage to multiple organs.
Basically the only way for you to have a good chance to survive eating the mushroom with little to no damage is to go to a hospital pretty much immediately after trying to empty your stomack and to tell the doctor that you probably ate it. In any other case the only thing that can save you is the limited dose of the toxin. If you ate enough of the mushroom in one go without knowing it then you will most likely die after 3..4 days of pain and suffering.
As a simple highschool student ,Ted Ed has helped me and millions understand so much about the world and making it more interesting than it already was.
I love how they got to not show a single real life picture of the mushroom which "will kill you before you know what’s happening".
Good job!
The piece of music is mesmerizing.
You show and tell info fantastically and i hope you do again with another History vs.
There doesn't have to be an advantage, just not a disadvantage
An often overlooked and misunderstood distinction.
Isn't the disadvantage found in the fact that mushrooms must expend energy to create these compounds in the first place? It probably isn't a strong pressure, but I imagine it should stop an entire species evolving a trait like this randomly. In which case it'd be a safe assumption that this compound is or used to be of some use to the mushroom.
I could be wrong, so definitely take this with a grain of salt. But I doubt that scientists would still be studying it if something as simple as "there's no disadvantage" is the solution anyway.
@@Gamesaucer Nope sometimes they just pop out those mutations. Or it could be that they evolved to literally just kill humans because we eat everything without transmitting spores. Maybe we are the only predators and other animals just know not to eat those. It is just evolutionary the best startegy to be as toxic to humans as possible.
in god of war ragnarok, you can see little blue mushroom creatures that are around the dwarves house. Weird detail because the game never brings them up
It's also odd of you to bring that up
@@Carlos-bz5ooyeah like bro is so random!
So?
And can Kratos angrily shove them in his mouth?
@@lobstrosity7163he shoves them up his a55
Every mushroom is edible at least once
underrated comment. just brilliant.
Ate my first Coccora mushroom the other day! Now Amanita calyptroderma is my favorite edible
Why is a video about poisonous mushrooms making me hungry for mushrooms?
A long time ago, about forty years, when I was five. My family and I lived in Italy a couple of mushroom hunters, who were very experienced picked deathcaps by mistake and died. I have to say that that put me off trying my hand at it for life. Much as I love wild mushrooms.
Could you maybe show real life photos of the death caps at the end of the video? Maybe from many different angles?
Probably, but it's not the point. the video is supposed to inform us about a very dangerous species, not part of a campaign to mitigate it's victims. It's supposed to be interesting and stylish, as those videos usually are. You can probably search if it spikes your interest since there's no problem to accessing the web
@@Sum_equals_1 I'd imagine that how something looks is important information, so if "informing us about a dangerous species" is the goal, it would have been a good idea to show something less stylised.
I'd advocate against a photo, though. It's easy to get a wrong impression from a photo because you can't control what details a photo shows. This is why foraging guides typically use drawings rather than photos, too. In a drawing, every detail is placed with care so you can be sure that everything you're seeing is a way to help identify it, and the details that don't matter can be hidden. This minimises the risk of misidentifying mushrooms due to paying attention to the wrong things.
So they show some photos, someone watches the video, picks and eats death caps, and sues this channel. By not showing them at all they avoid legal exposure.
If you need pictures on this platform to recognise Death caps,you should not even contemplate foraging for mushrooms.Do a course.
Found this living in a tree hollow in central Texas, was very close to giving one a taste.
What ever you do, don't show an actual picture of a Death Cap. Just show cartoons. So educational.
New here?
Oh god, then look them up on Google. You’re whining just to whine.
@@VeneficaDeliriumThis is TedEd, as in educational. Why would they show all of this without educating us at all?
Now every time I watch Ted ed before bed my anxiety keeps me up from these traumatic videos
Please can you do one about artificial sugars, I’m very curious about them
It takes 6 to 24 hours for symptoms to appear, and it can be days before death takes place. Yes you can take a few, but it still is not a sudden death.
The issue is more that the distinctive symptoms only show once you have suffered irreversible organ damage. The title is kinda misleading but the important part is that once you realize you've been poisoned it's too late and your only hope is a liver transplant.
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0:48 is it just me or does this sound like the sound when you complete a quest in Path of Titans
The lack of real pictures is a terrible way to warn of the dangers of this mushroom!
I don't even like mushrooms, so I'm safe from getting poisoned by them.
Extremly strange that you do not show a real picture of the mushroom
Aaaaand.....no visual or descriptive details on what Death caps look like.
Carefull out there. Good luck.
My father was a mushroom afficianado, but there were only about three species he would choose to eat. He always said, if in doubt, don't even touch it! So it was a rare treat on our camping trips when we'd have wild mushrooms.
I see them regularly when foraging for mushrooms. I do not even touch them. Since I only pick mushrooms of the Boletus genus, my biggest possible mistake is to pick the bitter bolete. I never took this type home, it can easily be identified by closer inspection once picked and examined properly.
Tylopilus Felleus, the bitter bolete, can look similar to the Botulis Edibilus ( porcini, cep) but usually has a vaguely pinkish pore surface and a skinnier stem. I've yet to find an actual Porcini here in Southern New England but I've come across numerous bitter boletes. A quick niggle and spit test will confirm the difference but you better have some water and maybe a breath mint with you to kill the taste, which will otherwise stay with you for a half hour! I have found plenty of other good edible bolete species around here......
When I first learned how to identify wild mushrooms, my more knowledgeable and informed teachers, first taught me how to identify the toxic ones, and anamitas were at the top of the list.
Not sure if this is true, but I once read that the reason some mushrooms are toxic is sort of random. It's because of the nutrients they consume, and the toxins they produce are just a byproduct of whatever they use to grow.
Also, the mushroom is pretty much just a fruit of the organism. Picking mushrooms will not hurt the huge network of mycelium underground, just as picking an apple will not harm the apple tree.
Great message. And the animations and music choice was wonderful!
3:58 Why did Japan vanish?
Didn't you watch Godzilla Minus One?
The deathcap mushrooms got them
China, maybe 😂
Sounds great cant wait to find some.
A forager had a mushroom feast. This is what happened to her liver.
A fellow Chubbyemu fan, I see
Callback to the man injecting mushroom soup into his bloodstream
I wouldn't call Galerina easily distinguishable. There are quite a few lookalikes. They're a classic little brown mushroom.
Strange to make an animation video about a poisonous fungus when it does nothing to accurately illustrate what Deathcaps actually look like.
Because if you try to teach people to identify poisonous mushrooms, you will be liable when they fail to do so. If there’s any doubt, find an expert. They’ve had the proper education. You do not want amateurs trying to make the distinction based on a TED cartoon.
I grew up in a mountainous area, and this is the most common mushroom that I knew. I never had mushrooms in my life...
A quick trip to wikipedia suggests that mushrooms are 23x more deadly to humans than sharks. Someone call Steven Spielberg, I have a script I would like to pitch him.
"Uh, Tom, I think that's a deathcap we just ate Tom"
Jerry's last word
No one: The Mushroom:im a end this mans whole career
Keep reading this and you might actually get to have the correct format
I am really keen on these TedEd videos because of their informativity and impressiveness. The way the processes were explained and visualized was educational and will stay in my mind for a long time.
Mushrooms are among my favorite foods, especially when I gather them with my hands. My parents tell me all the time to be attentive and not to mix poisonous and not poisonous mushrooms since there are ones that are highly similar. My uncle is an expert in distinguishing them since he has lived all his life in a village, and he always assists me in doing so:)) Still, with understanding the existence and the consequences of poisonous mushrooms, I also wonder how did our ancestors discover which plants, herbs, or mushrooms had medicinal properties, and was this process purely trial and error, or did they rely on other forms of intuition or observation? These are questions that need to be thoroughly examined.
Didn't even notice it was 4 minutes old
Hey Ted Ed,
Just a request, please do a video covering the legacy of the TATAs.
"will kill you before you know what's happening" .. gets sick, shows symptoms and goes to hospital to be healed.
if you wait until major symptoms start, its often too late to be healed. Death Caps tend to first show very mild symptoms several hours after that can easily be mistaken for just stomach upset, the victim improves shortly after, and then almost a day later the real symptoms start to show. At that point there is no antidote or cure because the majority of the toxins have bound themselves to your liver and kidneys and they are starting to die. IV can try to mitigate and filter out the stragglers, but at this point most victims die or are going to need a liver transplant
Awesome as always thanks ❤
you make it sound like mushrooms killing humans was a bad thing 🙁
Bro is a killer
Why don't you go eat some
early gang
Busting early every time 🦞
Your first
Very responsible to teach us this.
How do you mistake a deathcap for a puffball
Very interesting! Thanks!!!!
Beautiful animation once again!
Great video!
There are death caps all over where I live in southern Oregon, even in the city Parks.
I think the reason why they are so dangerous is that they are so common. I have a bunch of them growing in my front lawn and I can't get rid of them. These things are everywhere
This video has interesting facts but it does villainize deathcaps slightly. They’re quite easy to avoid and foragers shouldn’t have to be ‘on guard’ no mushroom is out to get us! Please don’t let this video scare you off mushrooms! Also an ID section of this video would’ve helped. Makes it a bit smoke and mirrors and further induces mycophobia
The only one I'm eating is the one with a yellow sponge at the underside of the cap that turns blue when pressed or otherwise damaged.
That sounds like it should be highly toxic but is actually edible and so distinctive that you can't mistake it for anything else...
Your general description of Bolete mushrooms, most but not all of which will have some degree of color change when bruised or perhaps cut open, and a few that don't bruise at all, applies to *hundreds* of species of mushrooms in North America and even more around the world , some of which can make you quite sick with several days of vomiting and diarrhea, though there are only 1 or 2 that could likely cause death. Many boletes are simply too bland and mushy to be desirable as edibles, and others taste incredibly bitter, so you really need to be keying in on a half a dozen features, and associated trees/habitats, in order to separate the good from the bad. There is an online " bolete filter" website that will help you with this.
@@goodun2974 I'm specially talking about _Imleria badia,_ commonly known as the bay bolete.
@@goodun2974 I was specifically talking about _Imleria badia,_ commonly known as the bay bolete...
@@goodun2974 Imleria badia.
This is the most adorable cartoon to explain the absolutely horrific and excruciating way you would die if you ate one (and didn't get treated).
found a bunch of these in my and my neighbor’s yard once, including in their dog’s pen. got some gloves and dug them out, bagged ‘em up and threw them away. never seen them before onour property in the 4 decades my family has lived here, and i’ve not seen them since. it was really odd.
apparently they go well in a beef wellington
I love to wander around in the woods foraging for mushrooms; golden rule for collecting mushrooms: only pick those you know absolutely for sure.
There are old mushroom forgers, and bold mushroom forgers, but there are no old bold mushroom forgers.
Also, Amanita phalloides is said to be quite tasty while eating it, so you won't suspect anything until it is too late. Unlike other deadly amanitas (like Amanita verna), which is said to taste really bad. I've been gathering mushrooms for 2 decades, but I play it super safe, if I have 0.1% doubt of what it is, I am not eating it.
remember: always let your neighbor test your food first.
Once upon a time:
A family collected mushrooms in the forest.
To make shure they gave the dog a potion and waited.
Nothing happened and thus they had dinner.
Suddenly the dog started to whine and lay on the floor.
In panic they went to the hospital and had their stomachs emptied and pumped out.
When they came back, pale and weak, the dog had 4 puppies
Mary Ann warned us on Gilligan's Island.
Thanks for the tip
The Dark Souls mushrooms are the other 10% of other mushroom related deaths.
Interesting, I like it ❤
I remember this exact method in The Great Brain at the Academy. The eponymous character uses this method to duplicate a key!
24 hr without ted ed feels like whole day
We pick and eat chanterelles in Oregon. There is only one other mushroom in the area that kinds sorta resembles them but it’s not hard to distinguish apart, and if you eat it, it’ll give you an upset stomach but it almost certainly won’t kill you.
I love mushrooms, but the death caps are scary!
The fact that Ted-Ed still have the Same Intro since 2012 Is Crazy🤯
I saw this guy give a lecture at the Telluride mushroom festival in 2011
I'm pretty sure me and my best friend ate and vomited some of these out as 15 year olds right before we played Halo 3 for the first time after it came out on the Xbox 360
I've been foraging for almost 10 years now. Ask me any question and I'll show you where it is in the grocery store!
I only trust mushrooms in the supermarket.
I've heard a test for poison is to rub the edible on the skin to see if there is a reaction before trying to eat it.