Misidentification of mushrooms can have dire consequences. In my genetics class, we read about mushrooms in the genus Amanita. The familiar fly agaric ... One case had permanent neurological ...

In the yard yesterday, I came upon a fly amanita. This is a mushroom — Latin name Amanita muscaria — that you don’t want to harvest and eat. Whenever I find one, I’m reminded of a walk I ...

This week, the Food and Drug Administration warned food manufacturers that Amanita muscaria and the compounds in that mushroom are not authorized for use in food, citing a review of the scientific ...