“Beware of death caps!” | VRT NWS: news

The hot humid weather means a bumper crop of mushrooms and toadstools. Harvesting fungi from the wilds is illegal in Flanders as a result of the large number of poisonous toadstools. Every year the anti-poison centre receives 400 calls after people have eaten poisonous toadstools in the wild. The centre has now issued a warning against consuming death caps. The fungus closely resembles a mushroom but is poisonous in the extreme. Dominique Vandijck of the anti-poison centre: “The death cap is the