Newsletter November 2018

“Top 6 Poisonous Mushrooms, (3-Deadly, 3-Vomiting and Diarrhea)”

Note: Learn these first and the chance of you being poisoned by wrong identifications drops below 10%! It is a common misconception that there are mostly poisonous mushroom species…. This is far from the truth! There is a much higher number of edible species, or non-poisonous species, (meaning bitter, or bad taste, or tough-leathery, etc. but not going to cause you to be sick) than poisonous or deadly mushroom species!

 Poisonous

Click on the species below to view a full description including identification help, how bad they will make you ill and what will actually happen if you consume them, and even fun-facts including photos of postage stamps for each species!

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1. Sulphur-Tufts (Hypholoma fasciculare)

2. Green-Gilled Parasol or Lepiota (Chlorophyllum molybdites)

3. Jack-o-Lantern (Omphalotus illudens)

4. Deadly Galerina (Galerina marginata or Galerina autumnalis)

5. Destroying Angel (Amanita virosa)

6. Death Cap (Amanita phalloides)

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