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RE: FungiFriday - Count the spots

in FungiFriday8 months ago

It's interesting to me how prevalent Amanita mushrooms are in pop culture/human psyche. For being so deadly, it has found a place in all kinds of places. Even the Super Mario Bros. mushroom is an Amanita. Maybe it's kind of like our relationship with snakes where there are so many deadly ones that they are kind of instinctively imprinted on our brain.

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The red one is probably one of the most recognizable mushrooms out there. Besides the common white ones we find in supermarket.

It could be.... it an automatic reaction to danger.
Then again, if we have never seen a snake, never heard of one and no one has ever told us there is such a thing, would we still be scared of it when we saw one?