amanita phalloides

Death is the nickname of the white poisonous mushroom (Amanita verna) distributed in northern Vietnam, with extremely dangerous amanitin toxicity.

Migrants are warned not to collect strange mushrooms, because it is possible, a delicious and non-toxic type where they come to be extremely toxic in Europe, despite the same form.

Two elderly people died in the US and four were poisoned after eating mushrooms at a nursing home on November 12.

A team of researchers has proposed a method to kill cancer cells by using the deadly fungal toxin (Amanita phalloides), without harming the body.