Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A cluster of death cap mushrooms grows in the wild. (DEA / P. Puccinelli / De Agostini via Getty Images) David Yturralde arrived ...

The state has seen a spate of mushroom poisonings in the last several months, including one in Humboldt County, amid what the California Department of Public Health describes as a “superbloom” of the ...

An exceptionally wet December has contributed to an abundance of death cap mushrooms, or Amanita phalloides, on the Central Coast and Northern California, causing what officials describe as an ...

Foragers are being warned of what could be the largest toxic mushroom outbreak in California history, which state health officials say has caused three deaths and sickened more than 30 people who ...

(SONOMA COUNTY, Calif.) — Foragers are being warned of what could be the largest toxic mushroom outbreak in California history, which state health officials say has caused three deaths and sickened ...

A person who went foraging for wild mushrooms in the San Francisco Bay Area has died after eating the toxic plant, health officials said Tuesday. The mushrooms, also known as “death cap mushrooms,” ...

A state-funded survey has sampled and collected fungi species from across California, identifying hundreds of new-to-science species. It’s part of a statewide effort to protect biodiversity, which has ...

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David Yturralde arrived at the mushroom talk in Newport Beach recently armed with a pen and paper and a host of questions. The goal, he said, was to demystify those fascinating fungi that popped up on ...

The death cap mushroom is one of the most poisonous mushrooms, leading to diarrhea, vomiting, liver damage and even death for those who eat it. (Agorastos Papatsanis) An exceptionally wet December ...