Your gardening photos

Lagrange, at this point collaborating with Spencer and his close colleague and spouse Valerie Palmer, a neurology researcher also affiliated with Oregon Health & Science University, renewed the investigation in the Alps, meeting some patients and their loved ones and asking questions. And she found that all of the patients had eaten false morels, which emerge in spring in forests in Europe, North America and Asia. False morels are so poisonous it is illegal to sell them in France.

Lagrange and coworkers learned that the ALS patients had deliberately sought out false morels for their supposed “rejuvenating” properties as well as their flavor. Indeed, the ALS patients knew one another and actively shared information about where to find the fungi. “They are always in a group, a secret group, a social network, and they eat the mushrooms,” a village elder explained to Lagrange. “And they all knew that it’s forbidden.”

may have been a subset of the group referred to initially. but the initial paper having identified six who offered this info does not mean the other 8 did not eat them. it just might not have been identified at that time.

i've probably mentioned before that i've grown oyster mushrooms at home a few times. this counts as a gardening photo, i think?