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Poisonous plants and fungi


by Maggy Wassilieff

If you go down in the woods today, be sure you don’t eat a toxic mushroom. New Zealand’s poisonous plants and fungi can have nasty effects, although few people die. Māori knew how to make food from certain poisonous native plants – such as cakes from the orange karaka berry.

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Main image: Fly agaric

Fly agaric


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