A woman in the United Kingdom found and ate an 11-pound puffball mushroom, which fed her family for a week of meals, she said. Experts share important warnings about wild mushrooms, however.
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There is no foolproof way to distinguish which mushroom is edible and which is poisonous. According to the health ministry, one person died earlier this year after eating wild mushrooms.
Nisaharan Thuraiyappah (BSc - Agricultural Science, MSc - Crop Protection) who has been doing home gardening for many years in Sydney explains about mushrooms. Segment produced by Praba Maheswaran.
He said employees of centres for foreigners had been instructed to warn Afghan citizens not to eat wild mushrooms. The Polish government says there are more than 250 poisonous species of fungi in ...