The world's deadliest mushroom is in California. The sunny state has been receiving more rain in recent months, but that has also brought on more death-cap mushrooms. There were 14 cases of death ...

Aussies have been warned to steer clear of picking or consuming wild mushrooms to avoid deadly poisoning by deathcap mushrooms.The Australian Food Safety Information Council's warning comes after a 98 ...

Three Monterey County residents were hospitalized after eating poisonous mushrooms purchased from an unlicensed vendor in Salinas, according to health officials. The mushrooms, which appeared to be ...

In late December, a woman and her two grandsons in California ate soup made from deadly Amanita phalloides mushrooms they had picked. These so called 'death cap' mushrooms contain amatoxin—a ...

The most deadly mushroom is amanita phalloides, or the death cap. Eating half its top, about 30g, can kill you – and the symptoms aren’t immediate, so by the time you realise, it’s all over.

A charity in Australia has repeated a warning against picking and eating wild mushrooms. The Food Safety Information ...

Identifying edible species of mushrooms in Australia requires caution and expertise. Fatal Death cap mushrooms are extremely difficult to distinguish from other wild mushrooms and can resemble ...