From the responses, the team learned that the ALS patients were not the only mushroom foragers in town, but they shared an affinity for a particular species that local interviewees without ALS said they never touched: the false morel.

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      12 days ago

      My mycology professor in university told us he had a doctorate in mushrooms and still wouldn’t ever forage for wild ones

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        Your mycology professor sounds like they’ve not really experience outdoors as much as in a city (and specifically a classroom).

        I was picking shrooms around the same time I got my first puukko, so idk, four to five years of age.

        https://yle.fi/aihe/a/20-137224