ContamFam asks: how to identify mushroom smells vs contam smells
MCX Answers: Hey mycopal! Budding community-mycologist you! 🍄❤️💅🏻
I often can smell mushrooms in the woods when I forage because of mycelium smell being so strong!
my most helpful tip for this question is: go to the grocery store as soon as you can, and smell every mushroom they have in the veggie section that has holes for passive fae. Mycelium, of at least fungus that produce fruit bodies (but potentially mycelium of other non fruiting fungi) has the same smell. The mushrooms in the wild you see, pick on and smell it. It should smell like the fresh grocery mushrooms you smelled.
Anything that smells described like: apples, alcohol, vinegar, rot, fetid, beer, ear wax, or ginger are all smells that are major indicators in my experience of contaminants both visible to your eye and not :)
Hope this helps!🍄❤️🍻
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