Taxonomy of Toxins

Coprinus comatus

f. cul. abstemia-coprinica

f. cul.

Coprinus comatus f. cul. abstemia-coprinica

abstemia: harm only with alcohol. The eater abstains from alcohol around the meal: the records give a day before to two days after (Vishnevsky 2020), up to three days before or after (DGfM 2023), five days (Finnish Food Authority). No kitchen route is offered: none is known, and none is needed without alcohol. Latin abstemius, abstaining from wine.

On Medicinal Use, abstemia, The Complete Table.

GBIF: photographs, names and where it has been found.

Sources

Li et al. 2021

31 reports of eating without harm

Li H, Tian Y, Menolli N Jr, Ye L, Karunarathna SC, Perez-Moreno J, Rahman MM, Rashid MH, Phengsintham P, Rizal L, Kasuya T, Lim YW, Dutta AK, Khalid AN, Huyen LT, Balolong MP, Baruah G, Madawala S, Thongklang N, Hyde KD, Kirk PM, Xu J, Sheng J, Boa E, Mortimer PE (2021). Reviewing the world's edible mushroom species: a new evidence-based classification system. Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety 20: 1982-2014. Supplementary Table S1. link

Boa E 2004

‘edible’ — Annex 3

Boa E R (2004). Wild edible fungi: a global overview of their use and importance to people. Non-Wood Forest Products 17. Rome: FAO. ISBN 92-5-105157-7. link

Wu et al. 2026

‘药用(有毒)’ medicinal, possibly poisonous — entry 188, 毛头鬼伞; marked 有毒: a lead, not a record

Wu F, Liu SB, Wang XH, Zhang M, Yang ZL, Dai YC (2026). 中国食药用菌物种编目 [Species cataloging of edible and medicinal fungi in China]. 菌物学报 Mycosystema 45(1): 250237. link

Wu et al. 2019

‘E’ — Wu et al. 2019, Table 1, p. 13: E (edible)

Wu F, Zhou L-W, Yang Z-L, Bau T, Li T-H, Dai Y-C (2019). Resource diversity of Chinese macrofungi: edible, medicinal and poisonous species. Fungal Diversity 98: 1-76. doi:10.1007/s13225-019-00432-7. Table 1, 'Medicinal fungi and their function(s)'. link

Xu et al. 2023

‘食药兼用’ edible and medicinal — Xu et al. 2023, Appendix 1, no. 100

Xu W-Q, Li Y, Li H-J, Liu D-M, Yang N, Zhang Q, He S-H (2023). 北京市大型真菌物种多样性调查与资源评价 [Species diversity and resource evaluation of macrofungi in Beijing]. 生物多样性 Biodiversity Science 31(10): 23196. link

Medicinal Use. Listed as medicinal: Wu et al. 2026, 药用(有毒) ‘medicinal, possibly poisonous’; Xu et al. 2023, 食药兼用 ‘edible and medicinal’. Carries a molecule of concern: see its route table.

abstemia. Molecules of concern: M9 Coprine.

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