June 5, 2009 | 26 comments

[Slide Show] Seven Deadly 'Shrooms

Fungi hunters and hikers beware, here are seven super toxic mushrooms to avoid

By Katherine Harmon

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HOODED FALSE MOREL

The brown saddle-shaped top might be mistaken for a delicious edible morel (which have to be cooked before eating), but the Gyromitra infula contains the toxin gyromitirin, which in the body turns into monomethylhydrazine, an ingredient in some rocket fuels. The G. infula, also known as the hooded false morel, or elfin saddle, may not be as deadly on first consumption as other mushrooms, but its cumulative effects are assumed to be adverse and potentially carcinogenic.

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