A woman in her 40s has died and a relative is seriously ill after eating poisonous mushrooms picked on a day out. The younger woman picked handfuls of Death Cap toadstools, which contain 20 toxic ...

The deadly toadstools look exactly like normal mushrooms to the untrained eye but cause organ failure and have no cure MASSES of Britain’s deadliest mushrooms which kill 90 per cent of people who eat ...

A CONCERNED dog owner believes poisonous toadstools could be behind recent canine deaths on Canvey. Kevin Williams, from Crescent Road in Canvey Island, claimed the fungi could be the problem causing ...

Foragers are being warned about an alarming abundance of Britain's most poisonous variety of mushroom this autumn. The lethal death cap mushroom is highly toxic and kills up to 90 per cent of those ...

A squirrel was spotted "routinely" eating poisonous mushrooms, or toadstools It's possible that the squirrels have to safely eat them Another possibility is that the squirrels help disperse the ...

Vast carpets of brightly-coloured fungi, even out-of-season edible mushrooms, are still growing in woodlands and damp meadows. Devastated Fred Marchment and his wife were walking with their three dogs ...