In a snow-covered village on the northern outskirts of Moscow, Russia’s most famous mycologist, Mikhail Vishnevsky, poured me a cup of light psychoactive mushroom tea. But it wasn’t psilocybin ...

Here are our top murderous mushroom facts... The Amanita muscaria is the red mushroom with the white spots that appears in fairy tales. It’s lethal if eaten raw (vomiting, bloody diarrhoea ...