Herbarium of the Bizarre

Death Caps

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We’re getting a bit of a head start on Spooky Season. Poisonous mushrooms! Political intrigue! Murder most foul! Like, seriously. So foul. And I’m pretty sure this is at least the second time Nero has come up on this show. I can’t escape that guy.


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Information provided by:

  1. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/05/17/1175494500/new-hope-for-an-antidote-to-death-cap-mushrooms-and-other-poison-fungi
  2. https://www.britannica.com/science/death-cap
  3. “Death Cap mushrooms can kill” from British Columbia Centre for Disease Control
  4. https://www.akcchf.org/canine-health/your-dogs-health/death-cap-mushrooms.html
  5. https://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/news/mushroom-poisoning-has-unreported-consequence-dog
  6. The death of Claudius, or Mushrooms for murderers by R. Gordon Wasson (1972)
  7. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_phalloides
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