Biodiversity: pharmacy students learn to recognize poisonous species of mushrooms

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The arrival of autumn marks the beginning of picking mushrooms. VShowever, some species are poisonous and even deadly. Uthirty or so pharmacy students left for the field on Friday, October 7 to learn to tell them apart.

It’s a master class that takes place in the middle of the forest, Friday, October 7th. Pharmacy students left their amphitheater to go mushroom picking. They learn to spot poisonous species.It’s the mushroom that kills, so that’s really the mushroom to pass on to everyone”explains their teacher, pointing to a kind of mushroom.

Jean Philippe RioultDoctor of Pharmacy at the University of Caen (Calvados), teaches his students the art of avoiding mushrooms.If you swallow this, in 20 minutes you will be crying, salivating, sweating. You will lose up to 10 liters of water”he explains.This knowledge is increasingly being lost, especially in pharmacies. So I find it very interesting to pass on this knowledge”says a student.

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