top | item 21288105

(no title)

kwasson | 6 years ago

There is one mushroom called the Poison Fire Coral that can poison through touch. It just made the news rounds for being found for the first time in North Queensland.

https://www.jcu.edu.au/news/releases/2019/october/deadly-fun...

discuss

order

cm2012|6 years ago

Cool, so there is an exception of 1!

“If found, the fungus should not be touched, and definitely not eaten. Of the hundred or so toxic mushrooms that are known to researchers, this is the only one in which the toxins can be absorbed through the skin,” said Dr Barrett, a mycologist from the JCU Australian Tropical Herbarium (ATH) who specialises in the study of fungi.

semi-extrinsic|6 years ago

Wow, that thing just screams "I'm dangerous, don't eat me!"

dredmorbius|6 years ago

Though the contact symptoms are described as dermatitis, not gross toxicity. Still a good idea not to handle it.

40four|6 years ago

Wow! So deadly, but so beautiful!

I love mushrooms!