But many other mushrooms were unfamiliar to me and one of these stood out as the clear winner of the big and ugly category. The cap was slightly over six inches in diameter and brown to dark brown, ...

An Australian woman accused of murdering three of her estranged husband’s relatives with poisonous mushrooms has told a court ...

Four family members met for lunch and were urgently rushed to emergency care on suspected cases of acute ‘death cap’ mushroom (Amanita phalloide) poisoning. Three of them - Gail Patterson ...

Death cap mushrooms are rearing their ugly heads again. Already, the season’s first rains are responsible for the death of a young dog in Oakland. A reader wrote that the 10-week-old pup died ...

The invasive death cap mushroom is thriving in North America. While it can be difficult to distinguish from an edible one, make no mistake: It can do a number on you. The death cap is the world's ...

They don't call it the "death cap" mushroom without good reason. It's one of the most poisonous mushrooms in the world. Eating only half a cap can shut down your liver – and if you don't get ...

Oak trees are wonderful plants in many ways, but this mushroom is associated directly with this tree. Foraging for anything deserves caution. Death cap mushrooms are extremely poisonous.

Doctors said the symptoms matched death cap mushroom poisoning, which forensic tests later confirmed. The prosecution alleges that Ms Patterson, 50, deliberately poisoned the lunch guests after ...

NSW Health and local councils have warned people against eating wild mushrooms after detecting the growth of death cap mushrooms in the state.

The alert comes less than a year after three people died after eating a beef Wellington – allegedly containing death cap mushrooms – at a family lunch in Leongatha, Victoria in July 2023.