Bad Mushrooms

As someone who thinks all mushrooms are nasty-perhaps the result of childhood trauma associated with reading Babar for the first time-this is the kind of correction I can get behind: “We used the wrong picture of a mushroom in yesterday’s paper (Fruits of the forest, 16 September, page 7, G2). The photograph was not, as the caption stated, of the death cap, Amanita phalloides but of the false death cap, Amanita citrina. The advice is the same — don’t pick or eat either, as the first is deadly poisonous and the second is horrible to eat.”