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Death-Cap Mushrooms Are Spreading Across North America
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<blockquote data-quote="Tony" data-source="post: 1706" data-attributes="member: 2"><p><a href="https://getpocket.com/explore/item/death-cap-mushrooms-are-spreading-across-north-america?utm_source=pocket-newtab" target="_blank"><strong>Death-Cap Mushrooms Are Spreading Across North America</strong></a> - Pocket</p><p></p><p>“There’s nothing in the taste that tells you what you are eating is about to kill you.”</p><p></p><p><strong>Between a sidewalk </strong>and a cinder-block wall grew seven mushrooms, each half the size of a doorknob. Their silver-green caps were barely coming up, only a few proud of the ground. Most lay slightly underground, bulging up like land mines. Magnolia bushes provided cover. An abandoned syringe lay on the ground nearby, along with a light assortment of suburban litter.</p><p></p><p> Paul Kroeger, a wizard of a man with a long, copious, well-combed beard, knelt and dug under one of the sickly colored caps. With a short, curved knife, he pried up the mushroom and pulled it out whole. It was a mushroom known as the death cap, <em>Amanita phalloides</em>. If ingested, severe illness can start as soon as six hours later, but tends to take longer, 36 hours or more. Severe liver damage is usually apparent after 72 hours. Fatality can occur after a week or longer. “Long and slow is a frightening aspect of this type of poisoning,” Kroeger said.</p><p></p><p>Kroeger, who studied the biochemistry of medicinal mushrooms while working as a lab assistant and technician at the University of British Columbia, is a founding member and the former president of the Vancouver Mycological Society, and the go-to authority on mushroom poisonings in western Canada. When <em>Amanita phalloides</em> first appeared in British Columbia in 1997, he took careful note. It had never before been seen in Canada. The single reported specimen was found among imported European sweet chestnut trees near the town of Mission, an hour east of Vancouver.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tony, post: 1706, member: 2"] [URL='https://getpocket.com/explore/item/death-cap-mushrooms-are-spreading-across-north-america?utm_source=pocket-newtab'][B]Death-Cap Mushrooms Are Spreading Across North America[/B][/URL] - Pocket “There’s nothing in the taste that tells you what you are eating is about to kill you.” [B]Between a sidewalk [/B]and a cinder-block wall grew seven mushrooms, each half the size of a doorknob. Their silver-green caps were barely coming up, only a few proud of the ground. Most lay slightly underground, bulging up like land mines. Magnolia bushes provided cover. An abandoned syringe lay on the ground nearby, along with a light assortment of suburban litter. Paul Kroeger, a wizard of a man with a long, copious, well-combed beard, knelt and dug under one of the sickly colored caps. With a short, curved knife, he pried up the mushroom and pulled it out whole. It was a mushroom known as the death cap, [I]Amanita phalloides[/I]. If ingested, severe illness can start as soon as six hours later, but tends to take longer, 36 hours or more. Severe liver damage is usually apparent after 72 hours. Fatality can occur after a week or longer. “Long and slow is a frightening aspect of this type of poisoning,” Kroeger said. Kroeger, who studied the biochemistry of medicinal mushrooms while working as a lab assistant and technician at the University of British Columbia, is a founding member and the former president of the Vancouver Mycological Society, and the go-to authority on mushroom poisonings in western Canada. When [I]Amanita phalloides[/I] first appeared in British Columbia in 1997, he took careful note. It had never before been seen in Canada. The single reported specimen was found among imported European sweet chestnut trees near the town of Mission, an hour east of Vancouver. [/QUOTE]
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