Death cap mushrooms were at the center of an Australian murder trial. A jury in Australia has found Erin Patterson guilty on ...

Death cap mushrooms have a large domed or white cap, depending on age and an off-white stem. They can grow up to 15cm wide ...

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

The mushrooms reportedly look like white button mushrooms, which are edible, but are actually amanita phalloides, also known as death cap mushrooms for their level of poisonousness.

Erin Patterson hosted several of her estranged husband's relatives for lunch in July 2023. Within days, three of them were dead of mushroom poisoning. She denies deliberately poisoning them.

The world’s deadliest mushroom has been spreading across the United States faster than expected. The “death cap” mushroom, which is more formally called Amanita phalloides, is extremely ...

Anyone who eats death cap mushrooms may fall ill, then appear to recover, but the poison can then cause liver failure or death, officials said. Photo by Michael G. Wood via British Columbia Centre ...

Erin Patterson, the woman accused of murdering three guests with a meal laced with death cap mushrooms, told her trial on Wednesday she may have inadvertently added foraged mushrooms to the lunch ...

Anyone who may have eaten death cap mushrooms may feel better 24 hours later but may be in need of a liver transplant due to the damage the mushrooms can cause.