Death Caps
Episode 46 of the Herbarium of the Bizarre podcast, hosted by Meredith Hemphill, titled "Death Caps" was published on September 22, 2024 and runs 12 minutes.
September 22, 2024 ·12m · Herbarium of the Bizarre
Summary
We’re getting a bit of a head start on Spooky Season. Poisonous mushrooms! Political intrigue! Murder most foul! Like, seriously. So foul. And I’m pretty sure this is at least the second time Nero has come up on this show. I can’t escape that guy. Music by James Milor from Pixabay Information provided by: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/05/17/1175494500/new-hope-for-an-antidote-to-death-cap-mushrooms-and-other-poison-fungi https://www.britannica.com/science/death-cap “Death Cap mushrooms can kill” from British Columbia Centre for Disease Control https://www.akcchf.org/canine-health/your-dogs-health/death-cap-mushrooms.html https://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/news/mushroom-poisoning-has-unreported-consequence-dog The death of Claudius, or Mushrooms for murderers by R. Gordon Wasson (1972) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_phalloides
Episode Description
We’re getting a bit of a head start on Spooky Season. Poisonous mushrooms! Political intrigue! Murder most foul! Like, seriously. So foul. And I’m pretty sure this is at least the second time Nero has come up on this show. I can’t escape that guy.
Music by James Milor from Pixabay
Information provided by:
- https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/05/17/1175494500/new-hope-for-an-antidote-to-death-cap-mushrooms-and-other-poison-fungi
- https://www.britannica.com/science/death-cap
- “Death Cap mushrooms can kill” from British Columbia Centre for Disease Control
- https://www.akcchf.org/canine-health/your-dogs-health/death-cap-mushrooms.html
- https://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/news/mushroom-poisoning-has-unreported-consequence-dog
- The death of Claudius, or Mushrooms for murderers by R. Gordon Wasson (1972)
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_phalloides