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RE: The Amateur Mycologist - Random Finds - Ganoderma ("Reishi") Species - A Pretty Discovery/Urban Tree Blight
I literally just found some immature reishi the other day. I was planning on doing a post. I should probably include some kind of disclaimer, as you do. Great pictures! I can tell how glossy they must have been!
I used to make all of my disclaimers sort of implicit and scattered them unofficially throughout the posts. I still think that was sufficient in a legal sense - but after seeing some reckless behavior regarding mushrooms in some other posts, I felt it was a moral prerogative to absolutely unequivocal about it.
Personally, I'm a bit of an anxious person, and no matter what knowledge I gather, I can't bring myself to eat my finds anyway. But my posts here, although I try to make them information dense and accurate, are anything but authoritative.
So, long and short of it, I'm a big believer in the disclaimer. But I also believe in increasing knowledge, and fungi are these awesome things that surround us all the time, which makes them the perfect candidates for pop-education like this.