They don’t look too dissimilar to the supermarket varieties we chop and throw into stir fries, but death cap mushrooms are one of the deadliest plants in the UK. Also known as 'Amanita Phalloides', ...

The liberty cap mushroom, notoriously used illegally as a psychoactive drug, could be the inspiration for a new therapy for depression according to the US drug regulator.

Doctors said the symptoms matched death cap mushroom poisoning, which forensic tests later confirmed. The prosecution alleges that Ms Patterson, 50, deliberately poisoned the lunch guests after ...