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This deadly fungus is hitchhiking its way across the world

While delectable, the parasol mushroom (<i>Macrolepiota procera</i>)— seen here among pines at dusk—is a risky pick, as it can be mistaken for poisonous look-alikes such as the death cap mushroom.

2024-04-11    

That was 20 years ago, when Pringle, now a mycologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, was doing research at the University of California, Berkeley. Despite its proliferation, there was a rumor that the deadly mushroom hadn’t originated on the Golden Coast. Six years and much DNA sequencing later, Pringle proved the rumor true: North America’s death cap mushroom was an invader, a fungal species likely native to Europe.

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