A 65-year-old Quebec woman died Friday after eating poisonous mushrooms at the beginning of July, even though her friends say she was an expert on wild mushrooms.
Judith Koritar, of Waterville, just south of Sherbrooke, underwent a liver transplant shortly after eating the mushrooms, but her condition deteriorated anyway.
"I was shocked, because she knew her mushrooms well," her longtime friend Denise Maheu said in French Monday.
Experts at the Montreal Botanical Gardens are now trying to determine the type of mushroom that caused her death, according to Koritar's daughter April.
Koritar's funeral will be held at the Unitarian Universalist church in North Hatley at 2 p.m. Wednesday.
The news follows a report that two young girls from the Montreal borough of Ahuntsic-Cartierville were hospitalized after eating wild mushrooms on the weekend.
Their father, Alain Blais, took a specimen of the mushrooms they ate to doctors and was told it was poisonous.
The girls were treated and released by Monday.