Three Monterey County residents were hospitalized after eating poisonous mushrooms purchased from an unlicensed vendor in Salinas, according to health officials. The mushrooms, which appeared to be common white button mushrooms,

Three individuals were hospitalized after ingesting amanita phalloides, or death cap mushrooms, purchased from a truck vendor in East Salinas.

California health officials said emergency room physicians reported three individuals who came into the ER on New Year’s Eve.