Before the commercial cultivation of mushrooms, people gathered mushrooms from the wild and relied on their identification skills to avoid eating any toxic species. In fact, Roman emperors would employ food tasters first to test if the mushrooms in their food were poisonous. Mushroom lovers: be glad you’re living in the 21st century where we currently have 30+ species of mushrooms domesticated and sold commercially rather than have to risk death every time you find one while hiking out and about.
All of the mushrooms below are deadly, having caused the death of one or more human beings throughout history. Can you match the picture of the mushroom with the species name?
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