Erin Patterson, 48, invited her former in-laws Gail and Don Patterson, both 70, Gail's sister Heather Wilkinson, 66, and her husband Ian Wilkinson, 68, for a lunch at her Leongatha home in the state’s South Gippsland region on July 29.
But her statements have now been countered by leading authority The Australian Mushroom Growers Association who say “it is impossible” for death cap and other poisonous mushroom varieties to be produced for commercial purposes as they “only grow in the wild”. The AMGA said death cap mushrooms could"only grow in the wild" and not produced under commercial settings. Source: Royal Botanic gardens Victoria
The 48-year-old said she saved the final plate for herself, which her children ate the following night, but she scraped the mushrooms off the dish because they didn’t like them.