The Amanita phalloides variety ... Columbia nearly died after eating what he thought was a non-toxic "giant puffball" mushroom (Calvatia gigantea), but was really a young death cap.

The Amanita muscaria is the red mushroom with ... In 1994, some Wisconsin teenagers snorted puffball spores in the hope of hallucinating. The spores promptly lodged in their lungs and they ended ...