According to this article 130 people have been poisoned by wild mushrooms this autumn. The Health protection Agency has issued a warning about the dangers of eating wild mushrooms unless you are completely sure what they are. Although many of the cases have been of children eating mushrooms there have also been 40 cases of adults deliberately eating them. Mushroom identification can be tricky and some experts have even been caught out mistaking a poisonous variety for a similar looking edible one. I guess the message here is, if in doubt don’t eat it, it just might kill you.
