He expects the incident to be reported in a suitable medical journal. Leo has been studying mushrooms for over 50 years. RAMA, which is only 10 years old, was formed mostly from students taught by Leo. His course in mushroom identification was a favorite at the RMSC for over 20 years. For Rochester Area Mycological Association, which is distributing fliers in the local Laotian community to warn about poisonous mushrooms found in the Rochester area.
Mycology is a branch of botany that deals with fungi.
Four Laotian family members were stricken after eating mushrooms picked in Durand-Eastman Park that resemble safe mushrooms they ate in Laos. The four have been released from the hospital. The Oldest Farm in the World Anthropologists think ancient humans began farming 10,000 years ago. But according to a paper in the current issue of the journal Science, they had been tending the same fungal lineage for all that time, too. The 190 species of leaf-cutter ants live mostly in Latin America.