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Destroying Angel
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Destroying Angel 

(Amanita phalloides), the most poisonous of mushrooms with gills, a member of the same genus as the fly agaric. The cap is green (greenish to white) with white gills. The stalk has a membranous ring (approximately in the middle) and a sacculate ocrea (near the base). It grows in summer and autumn in deciduous forests and more rarely in coniferous forests.
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COLUMN: In our opinion; editorial footnote News that a Newton woman and her son were stricken seriously ill recently when they consumed a wild mushroom known as Amanita virosa - the infamous "destroying angel" - brings to mind the pleasures and perils of the fungi-picking season.
Safety key in stalking fungi fun by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
Destroying Angels, or amanita virosa, are from the same family as the lethal Death Cap mushroom.
POISON HORROR OF HIT MOVIE WRITER; SCOTTISH EXCLUSIVE Author fights ... by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
We tentatively identified it as Amanita verna or Amanita virosa.
The fungus among us: exploring the mighty mushroom for food, medicine ... by Nyerges, Christopher / E
 
 
 
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