14 Poisoned by Wild Death Cap Mushrooms in California

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One has to wonder what they thought they were. There aren't any beginner-safe lookalikes.

People have been known to mistake them for volvariella volvacea or amanita brunnescens.

The article doesn't say how young the specimens these people ate were. Mushrooms that seem obvious as adults can be harder to identify when young.