Guide To Plants That Are Actually Poisonous

Certain Mushrooms

Some mushrooms might just cause mild nausea, but others are so poisonous that a small dose can be fatal. In addition, many wild mushrooms may look harmless while actually being a different, harmful specimen. Unless someone is a field expert, they shouldn't gather wild mushrooms and eat them, though even field experts don't tend to eat wild mushrooms because the risk is that high. There are between seventy and eighty species of mushrooms that have been identified as poisonous. Only some of them are fatal, but the fatal ones often look just like the edible ones. Death caps are some of the deadliest mushrooms and can be found throughout Europe. These mushrooms look a lot like caesar's mushrooms and edible straw mushrooms. Conocybe filaris mushrooms are common throughout the Pacific Northwest. Though they look innocent, they can cause fatal reactions. The webcap mushroom comes in two varieties that both contain deadly poison, but it's very similar to other edible mushrooms.

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