How to identify the fatal death cap mushroom this bumper season – video

Fungi experts are warning about the early arrival of a bumper season of death cap mushrooms. Dr Teresa Lebel, senior mycologist at Melbourne's Royal Botanic Gardens, points out the characteristics of the death cap, which is popping up around Australia. Ingestion causes abdominal pain and diarrhoea, before symptoms calm down and then return more severely, bringing liver failure and death Continue reading...