Two of the world's deadliest mushroom species are popping up over the Bay Area in the wake of recent rains. The East Bay Regional Park District warned people with dogs to be especially careful when ...

If you have mushrooms spouting up in your yard, it’s best to pluck the fleshy fungi before your dog has a chance to chew on it. Some mushrooms can be highly toxic to dogs, and ingestion of one in ...

A 72-year-old woman and her two grandchildren were treated at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center after eating a soup made with Amanita phalloides, an extremely toxic mushroom ...

They sprouted up in abundance after heavy rains, poking up through California lawns and forests, appearing harmless to some of those who found them – as though they’d make a good meal. And so they do, ...

An expert on death cap mushroom poisoning has revealed the physical torment the lunch guests who ate Erin Patterson's beef wellington would have suffered. Erin served a Beef Wellington that allegedly ...

After half a century of patiently waiting in the dark and biding their time, the deadliest mushroom in the world has arrived in Idaho. For decades, Amanita phalloides — commonly known as the death cap ...

Scientists have found that the world’s deadliest mushroom has been rapidly invading California, likely by cloning itself – an advance that sheds light on the reproductive strategies used by the fungus ...

Wild mushrooms are sprouting underfoot as dampish conditions continue, and the state’s Public Health Officer, Dr. Karen Smith, warns of Amanita phalloides, aka “death cap” mushroom, and Amanita ...

The poisonous mushrooms that killed six people at a remote village in Meghalaya's West Jaintia Hills district have been identified as Amanita phalloides, commonly known as the 'Death Cap', a senior ...

1) This species is circumglobal. It is more likely that it was already in the writer's garden in a mycorrhizal relationship with a nearby pine than tracked in on his shoes via spores. 2) Amanita ...