As their name implies, death cap mushrooms — which can be mistaken for white button mushrooms — can be deadly.
California health officials said emergency room physicians reported three individuals who came into the ER on New Year’s Eve.
Three Monterey County residents were hospitalized after eating poisonous mushrooms purchased from an unlicensed vendor in ...
Three adults in Salinas were stricken with severe mushroom poisoning and transferred to Stanford Medicine after eating death cap mushrooms.
The mushrooms reportedly look like white button mushrooms, which are edible, but are actually amanita phalloides, also known as death cap mushrooms for their level of poisonousness. Anyone who ...
Three individuals were hospitalized after ingesting amanita phalloides, or death cap mushrooms, purchased from a truck vendor ...
In fact, they were death cap mushrooms, which look very similar to the regular mushroom variety, and can be lethal. The individuals, all relatively young and healthy, according to ER physician ...