Foraging for mushrooms can be a dangerous habit. In recent weeks, 21 cases of toxic poisoning from wild, foraged mushrooms – likely from the ominously named death cap mushroom – have been reported in ...

Mature death caps have a smooth top cap that may be white or yellow with a green hue. (Getty Images) Death cap mushrooms have made headlines this week after a jury found an Australian woman guilty of ...

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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 ...