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The part about them being too closely related to Humans sounds like BS, but there is a mushroom that is perfectly safe the first few times you eat it, and then eventually makes your immune system attack your blood cells.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxillus_involutus
There's a Paul Stamets video where he talks about how mushrooms are so closely related to humans that we both fight off similar pathogens and that is why they are so useful to us for medicine (penicillin for example.)
TIL Stamets is named after a real mycologist.
I was thinking, "he is a real mycologist," before I figured out to whom you were referring.
Yeah, I don't know if @Stamets@lemmy.world is a mycologist but he's certainly named after one.
Named after an Astromycologist anyway. I try to distance myself as much as I can from the Union busting real world mushroom man