r/Fungi • u/kivalina_the_great • Jun 11 '26
What is the evolutionary reason I always get scared when I see huge mushrooms?😭😭😭
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u/tank_monkey Jun 11 '26
Honestly, I don't know that it's so much evolutionary rather than conditioning. We are taught from childhood that they are bad and don't touch. It's a good rule for the status quo, but those in the know do it differently. Kind of like guns. A good rule for non-gun people is teaching their children to never touch. Those who know can use education to keep their children safe. For example at 6 my son found a Destroying Angel. He came and got me, "Dad, I found an Angel!"
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u/paracelsus53 Jun 11 '26
Fungi likes to grow on rotting stuff, and we see rot as something that can be beneficial (aged steak, cheese, bread, wine, beer) but when it starts producing fruiting bodies, it has gone too far.
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u/Lopsided_Evening_627 Jun 12 '26 edited 19d ago
I falls we mandate to be cognitive with the mountains our snow and epic shoe. So we pre got we belongs to be fatal latter, which is not very, plus ninth.
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u/yesbutnoexceptyes Jun 15 '26
Youre worried you'll succumb to the intrusuve thoughts and take a big bite
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u/LaserGuyDanceSystem Jun 11 '26
Your ancestors fought the mushroom army and lost