The trio, described as young and healthy, ate amanita phalloides, commonly known as 'death cap' mushrooms, which closely resemble edible varieties like button and cremini mushrooms. The poisoning ...

Young death cap mushrooms, which are as lethal as they sound, start out low to ground and round, and as such, can resemble a puffball. However, if you cut a young death cap in half, you will see ...

The death cap mushroom (Amanita phalloides ... He was caught when a physician questioned why a healthy young woman would suddenly die and performed an autopsy. Girard was sentenced to death ...

In late December, a woman and her two grandsons in California ate soup made from deadly Amanita phalloides mushrooms they had picked. These so called 'death cap' mushrooms contain amatoxin—a ...