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Italian brown mushroom; cremini (also crimini) mushroom [13] [14] chestnut mushroom (not to be confused with Pholiota adiposa) baby bella [13] When marketed in its mature state, the mushroom is brown with a cap measuring 10–15 cm (4–6 in). [14] This form is commonly sold under the names portobello, [14] [15] portabella, [16] or portobella ...
Poisonous mushrooms contain a variety of different toxins that can differ markedly in toxicity. Symptoms of mushroom poisoning may vary from gastric upset to organ failure resulting in death. Serious symptoms do not always occur immediately after eating, often not until the toxin attacks the kidney or liver, sometimes days or weeks later.
This is the basis for the common recommendation to slice in half all puffball-like mushrooms picked when mushroom hunting. Mushroom hunters recommend that people know how to recognize both the death cap and the destroying angel in all of their forms before collecting any white gilled mushroom for consumption. [citation needed]
Suspected mushroom poisoning in Australia has made headlines around the world
Amanita virosa is highly toxic, and has been responsible for severe mushroom poisonings. [7] Eating just one cap of A. virosa is enough to kill an adult human. [7] The symptoms of poisoning generally come several hours after consumption, a delay which may make treatment more difficult. Fruit bodies contain both amatoxins and phallotoxins.
A meal of suspected death cap mushrooms served at a family lunch in late July is at the center of a homicide investigation in Australia following the deaths of three guests less than a week later.
jack-o'lantern mushroom Illudins M and S, Muscarine: severe cramps, vomiting, and diarrhea North America Cantharellus californicus: Omphalotus japonicus (Kawam.) Kirchm. & O.K.Mill. (2002) jack-o'lantern mushroom Illudins M and S, Muscarine: severe cramps, vomiting, and diarrhea Japan Pleurotus ostreatus Lentinula edodes Panellus serotinus ...
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