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Explore the toxicity of death cap mushrooms, and find out what makes this one species so dangerous to humans.

Humans have known about the toxicity of death cap mushrooms for millennia. Yet they continue to pose a significant threat to unsuspecting foragers and mushroom hunters throughout the world. Today, death caps are responsible for more than 90% of all mushroom related deaths, killing upwards of 100 people each year. So, what makes this one species of mushroom so dangerous? Michael Beug investigates.

Lesson by Michael Beug, directed by Denys Spolitak.

  • the_artic_one@programming.devEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Ah A. Ocreata is actually reported to have a poor taste. I’m not in Europe either but A. Phalloides is all over North America these days thanks to introduced hardwoods.

    Most of the deaths are from East Asian immigrants mistakenly assuming the mushrooms here are like the ones at home, and they mis-identify and then harvest & eat the Amanita spp. instead of what they thought they were harvesting (I actually don’t know the mushroom they mistake it for that is found in Asia).

    I’ve heard this factoid is pretty exaggerated, it’s not like East Asia doesn’t have both deadly and edible Amanitas