Australia mushroom trial live: cross-examination of Erin Patterson continues on day 31 of her triple murder trial

Victorian woman, 50, has pleaded not guilty to three charges of murder and one of attempted murder after a fatal beef wellington lunch in Leongatha in 2023. Follow live

Prosecutor Nanette Rogers SC shows the court a photo of Patterson in hospital on 31 July 2023. The image shows a phone in a pink case on top of a black pack.

Patterson agrees this is the phone she used as her primary device from February 2023 until August 2023.

Rogers says this is the phone, dubbed Phone A in the trial, she used to research death cap mushrooms. Patterson disagrees.

Rogers says it is the phone to look up the citizen science website iNaturalist. Patterson rejects this.

Rogers suggests she saw the posts on iNaturalist about sightings of death cap mushrooms posted by mycologist Dr Thomas May and retired pharmacist Christine McKenzie in the months before the lunch on this phone. Patterson rejects this.

Patterson says: “I didn’t see that post.”

Rogers says the police never located Phone A.

Patterson agrees.