Fungi are sprouting in clusters after weeks of heavy rain in the Bay Area. That may be good news for those interested in mushroom foraging, but as many inexperienced foragers join the scene, expert ...

While some mushrooms are completely harmless and, in fact, quite delicious to eat, others can cause severe or fatal health risks. The death cap mushroom, or Amanita phalloides, is aptly named due to ...

In July 2023, Erin Patterson invited four of her ex-husband’s relatives to lunch at her home in Leongatha, a small town in Victoria. Within days, three of them had died. Her estranged husband’s uncle ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Prof. Anne Pringle, a mycologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, about the latest research on death cap mushrooms, revealing new information about the enigmatic ...

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It’s mushroom season in many parts of Australia. Between April and about June, the cooler and wetter weather are the perfect conditions for mushrooms to grow in the wild. In Tasmania and parts of ...

Death cap mushrooms are back in the news. Amanita phalloides has once again been linked to poisonings, this time lacing beef Wellingtons served at a family meal in Leongatha, Australia, which resulted ...

Death cap mushrooms were in the headlines this week after an Australian woman received a life sentence for fatally poisoning some of her family members with the toxic fungus. But recent research has ...

California authorities are warning people not to eat foraged mushrooms for the time being after nearly two dozen people were sickened — including one fatally — by a highly poisonous mushroom known as ...