A woman and her daughter, 12, were taken to hospital after eating toxic home-grown mushrooms amid growing concerns over fungi poisoning in Australia.
Alice Both said "white, button-like mushrooms" appeared in her vegetable patch, and cooked them to eat with a meal. Ms Both said they "tasted fine" - but it wasn't until the next morning that she realised they were deadly.
"I was dizzy, I felt like I was fading away at that point. I felt very unwell, I had a fever," Ms Both of south Australia told The Advertiser, detailing her symptoms.
Luckily, her daughter had only eaten a couple of mouthfuls of food, so her symptoms were mild in comparison, but they both found themselves in A&E.
Ms Both said she used an app to identify the mushroom when she first noticed symptoms. However, Victorian deputy chief health officer Angie Bone explained this could be a mistake.
She said: "Consuming just a single death cap mushroom can result in liver failure and death, so if you are not an expert and absolutely certain of the species of mushroom, do not pick it or eat it.
"We have heard from the Victorian Poisons Information Centre that some of the recent poisonings have been related to people using apps to try to tell the difference between an edible and a toxic mushroom."
This year there have been 24 cases of wild mushroom poisoning in South Australia, and of those nine have been hospitalised including three children under five, according to Seven News.
And since April, 60 people have made mushroom-related calls to Victoria's poison information centre, according to the Australian Associated Press and a further 24 calls in Adelaide since January.
