September 18, 2008

Don't pick wild mushrooms in the botanical garden

If you do, at least know what the Death Cap toadstool - amanita phalloides - looks like.

 Death Cap Mushroom

One woman in her 40s just died and her relative is seriously ill after eating wild mushrooms picked in botanical gardens on the Isle of Wight

Here's another photo of a more mature death cap.

 Death-Cap 2

Posted by Jill Fallon at September 18, 2008 10:14 AM | Permalink
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