In ancient times, before mushrooms were domesticated, the deadly poisons that some of them contain made eating mushrooms a risky business. Even today there are often news reports of people being poisoned by eating wild mushrooms. There are very many different species of mushroom.
遠古時期，菇類尚未馴化前，由於部分菇蕈含有劇毒，人們食用菇蕈不時得「冒著生命危險」，即使到今天，食用野菇中毒的新聞也隨時可見。