A toxic mushroom at the centre of an Australian woman’s ongoing murder trial is also found in Canada. Currently on trial, Erin Patterson, 50, is accused of killing three relatives and attempting to ...

Mushroom foraging, or mushroom hunting, is popular in many parts of the world - but even experienced foragers can make mistakes ...

Erin Patterson is on trial in Australia, accused of murdering three relatives by serving them beef Wellington laced with deadly death cap mushrooms at a lunch in Leongatha, Victoria, in July 2023 ...

A woman accused of murdering three of her estranged husband's relatives with poisonous death cap mushrooms inside a beef wellington has denied she measured a "fatal dose" on her kitchen scales ...

Known scientifically as Amanita phalloides, the death cap is responsible for about 90% of mushroom-related deaths across the world.It can easily be mistaken for a variety of edible mushrooms.

It’s mushroom season in many parts of Australia.. Between April and about June, the cooler and wetter weather are the perfect conditions for mushrooms to grow in the wild. In Tasmania and parts of ...

Erin Patterson, the Australian woman accused of killing three people and attempting to kill a fourth with a meal laced with death cap mushrooms, has taken the stand in her own defense at a trial ...

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 ...

Erin Patterson, the 50-year-old Australian woman accused of killing her relatives with death cap mushrooms, told the court on Thursday that she did not knowingly dehydrate deadly death cap mushrooms ...

Death Cap Mushroom Suspect Admits To Storing 'Exotic' Fungi In Same Jar As Store-Bought Ones Erin Patterson pleads not guilty to murder and attempted murder over fatal lunch at her home in Leongatha ...