Between the sidewalk and the wall of the cinder block stood seven mushroom, each about half the size of a door. Their green caps had not yet arrived, only a few were proud of the place. Most slept on the floor slightly, exploding like land mines. Magnolia trees are provided with cover. The discarded well lies on the ground nearby, with a simple assortment of urban waste.

Paul Kroeger

A sorcerer of a long, bearded man, well-groomed, knelt down and dug under one of the sick-colored boats. With a short Grouse Mountain Vancouver knife, he made a mushroom and cut it all out. It was a mushroom known as the death cap, Amanita phalloides.

When eaten severe

Illness can begin as early as six hours, but it usually lasts longer, 36 hours or more. Severe liver damage usually appears after 72 hours. Death can occur within a week or so. "Long and slow walking is a frightening aspect of this type of poison," Kroeger said.

He and I were in a quiet neighborhood in East Vancouver, British Columbia. Across the street, after the St. Patrick The Gaia Voice School, children played basketball, and their voices echoed through the passing cars. Kroeger loves children. As we hunted mushrooms on the side of the road earlier that day, he slept in all the carts, and then he stopped his parents to warn them of death caps in the area.

• Shaking mushrooms on the
• Ground and adding others
• To the wax line, he
• Inspected the collection
• And said It is
• Enough to kill
• Every Catholic school

Death hats were lightly covered, with white holes and slightly green stems. Beneath each stem was a silk slip, called a volva, thegaiavoice.com was whiter than any other mushroom. Amanita phalloides species make up more than 90 percent of the mushroom-related toxicity and mortality worldwide.

Kroeger, who studied medical

Mushroom biochemistry while working as a lab assistant and specialist at the University of British Columbia, is a founding member and former president of the Vancouver Mycological Society, as well as officials involved in mushroom poisoning in western Canada.

When Amanita phalloides first appeared in British Columbia in 1997, she carefully observed. It had never been seen in Canada. One reported statue was found among European imported chestnut trees near the town of Mission, an hour east of Vancouver.

The species also

Emerged a year later, under a large, ornate European beech tree in the courtyard of a government building in the provincial capital, Victoria, south of Vancouver Island. Ten years later, death caps first appeared in Vancouver, a shady area of ​​European European trees.

Kroeger hired volunteers to search nearby areas, and he introduced the name to mushroom hunters. In the first year, Grouse Mountain Vancouver listed about 50 places in Vancouver. Kroeger wanted to know where the mushrooms came from and where they would come from next. Sooner or later, he was afraid, with disastrous consequences.