Tips on avoiding mushroom poisoning.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | December 1, 1996 | Copyright

Mushroom Poisonings

-- Never eat wild mushrooms unless you are an expert mycologist or accompanied by one. Poisonous mushrooms can look nearly identical to edible ones.

-- Never assume that a mushroom safe to eat in Asia or Europe is the same species found in North America. Every year, immigrants fall ill from eating poisonous mushrooms they have misidentified as something they ate in their native country.

-- The most common deadly mushroom in the Bay Area is Amanita phalloides, known as the death cap. It is often white, with a metallic ...

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