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This is a photo of a matsutake mushroom. The commercial harvest season for the matsutake opens in four national forests in Oregon following the Labor Day weekend.

(Grant Butler/The Oregonian)

A photo of an amanita muscaria mushroom, which can cause hallucinations, disorientation and wild behavior, mistakenly appeared with a story about the opening of matsutake mushroom season on page 7 of the Sunday A & E section of The Oregonian.



The amanita muscaria, which often has a cap that is reddish with white spots, can impact the central nervous system and cause people who eat it to become extremely disoriented and be hard to control, according to Judy Roger of the Oregon Mycological Society.

This photo of an amanita muscaria mushroom, which can cause hallucinations and wild behavior, mistakenly ran with a story about matsutake mushroom season.

It also causes them to go into a deep sleep for several hours. But she said it is not considered deadly.



Matsutake mushrooms are white when young but begin to turn brownish as they mature. The commercial harvest season for the matsutake opens in four national forests in Oregon following the Labor Day weekend.



-- The Oregonian