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Mushroom poisoning is usually the result of ingestion of wild mushrooms after misidentification of a toxic mushroom as an edible species. The most common reason for this misidentification is a close resemblance in terms of color and general morphology of the toxic mushrooms species with edible species.
According to James Wood, a foraging expert at Totally Wild UK, there are over 12,000 types of mushrooms growing in the UK and five main types of deadly mushrooms that can be found across Britain.
The deadly webcap and the fool's webcap both contain the toxin orellanin and orellin, orellinin [4] and Cortinarin A, B, C. [5] A characteristic of orellanin poisoning is the long latency; the first symptoms usually don't appear until 2–3 days after ingestion and can in some cases take as long as 3 weeks.
Although many people have a fear of mushroom poisoning by "toadstools", only a small number of the many macroscopic fruiting bodies commonly known as mushrooms and toadstools have proven fatal to humans. This list is not exhaustive and does not contain many fungi that, although not deadly, are still harmful.
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This story was corrected to reflect that calls to the Minnesota Regional Poison Center about potential exposures to poisonous mushrooms from April through July more than tripled over the same ...
These toxic mushrooms resemble several edible species (most notably Caesar's mushroom and the straw mushroom) commonly consumed by humans, increasing the risk of accidental poisoning. Amatoxins, the class of toxins found in these mushrooms, are thermostable: they resist changes due to heat, so their toxic effects are not reduced by cooking.
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