Prosecutors allege she intended to kill two elderly couples – including her children’s grandparents – and deliberately picked death cap mushrooms for murder.

The death cap mushroom is one of the deadliest poison fungi on earth. Few effective treatments are available. But a team of Chinese and Australian scientists say they've made a leap forward.

An Australian woman accused of murdering three of her estranged husband’s relatives with poisonous mushrooms has told a court she accepts the fatal lunch she served contained death caps.

Health authorities in New South Wales and South Australia are warning residents to avoid wild mushrooms due to a surge in ...

Death caps, which are abundant throughout California, can easily be confused for edible mushrooms. But just one of these unassuming, greenish caps contains enough poison to kill someone.

They don’t look too dissimilar to the supermarket varieties we chop and throw into stir fries, but death cap mushrooms are one of the deadliest plants in the UK. Also known as 'Amanita ...

Since the death cap is most easily distinguished by the bottom of its stalk, it’s important to pull the full mushroom out of the ground to confirm that you’ve picked an edible relative and not ...

Native to Europe, death cap mushrooms were first confirmed in Australia in the 1960s, and they almost always grow near introduced trees, namely oaks, according to Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria.

The death cap, Amanita phalloides, contains the poison amanitin and is responsible for 90 per cent of deaths by fungus, with half a cap or even less enough to kill a person, ...

The invasive death cap mushroom is thriving in North America. While it can be difficult to distinguish from an edible one, make no mistake: It can do a number on you. The death cap is the world's ...

Death cap mushrooms kill up to 100 people per year and sicken thousands more but have no antidote. Scientists used CRISPR to help identify a chemical that could become the first death cap antidote.

Death-cap mushroom toxin synthesized Route devised for α-amanitin, one of the deadliest known toxins by Celia Henry Arnaud March 30, 2018 ...