What happens when you eat them?
You die, and report the circumstances of your death to your friends so they don't eat them.
Seriously, I wonder how many deaths had to occur before the co-relation between a given mushroom and its effects became known. Kind of strange to think about.
I'll stick to canned mushrooms, thank you, where a known species was grown in a known dark room and was fed with known decaying matter.
And one also wonders, from a Darwinian species-survival viewpoint, what advantage do poisonous mushrooms have, with no obvious warning mechanism, for the survival of that particular species? Kind of like the "deadly virus" question, where a species kills its own host.
Could it be simply that a dead victim provides food for more mushrooms?
'Tis a puzzlement.
Terry, 230RN