Apropå den olycksaliga förväxlingen mellan Halmslidskivling (Volvariella volvacea)och Lömsk flugsvamp. Nedan ett utdrag ur “Mushrooms poisons and panaceas” av Denis R. Benjamin (1995). “In the fall of 1989, a Portland family of Korean immigrants drove to the Columbia River gorge to pick chestnuts from a grove known to members of the Asian community. While gathering chestnuts in the county park, they found mushrooms resembling paddy straw mushrooms, Volvariella volvacea, which are sold commercially in Korea. Relatively few Asian consumers ever see them growing in their native state because paddy straw mushrooms are widely cultivated… Each of the participants ate an estimated 10 to 12 caps… Ten hours after the feast, they all began to have cramping abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. At the hospital, the specter of possible mushroom poisoning was raised. One of the patients mentioned that uneaten mushrooms were still at home… (An) amateur mycologist… visited the house, only to find two more victims suffering from early symtoms of poisoning…(a) chairperson of the toxicology committee - uncovered another 40 specimens of Amanita phalloides (Lömsk flugsvamp). Despite initiation of therapy about 12 hours after the meal… the poisoning symptoms persisted and progressed. Whithin 72 hours, four of the five patients had evidence of severe liver dysfunction… Four patients had liver transplants. The fifth recovered an episode of moderate liver and kidney failure…The victims were immigrants who assumed that their mushroom find was similar to a species found in theire native land. Their knowledge was folklore based and limited.” Det är således inte lätt för en invandrare att identifiera den svamp man köper i hemlandet på marknaden och att identifiera svamp ute i naturen i sitt rätta element.