Types Of Poisonous Mushrooms
As with all mushrooms, there is always a large variety of every kind and poisonous mushrooms are no exception. The range of effects from different types of poisonous mushrooms may be mild stomach pains lasting no longer than a day, to severe cramping, diarrhea, vomiting or even death within a week. If you hunt for wild mushrooms there is a possibility any one of them could be poisonous so before eating any, make sure you or an experienced mushroom hunter can positively identify the mushroom as being edible. If you grow your own mushrooms you wont have to worry so much.
Although there are hundreds of poisonous mushrooms, some have caused more deaths than others because they grow in larger quantities, are much more common to come across, or are more commonly mistaken for other edible mushrooms because they are nearly identical in appearance and/or smell.
The three most dangerous types of poisonous mushrooms fall under the amanitas, false morels, and the little brown mushrooms or LBM’s category. These three categories account for the majority of mushroom poisoning in the US, with amanitas alone being responsible for nearly all mushroom related death.