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Fool's mushroom or the spring destroying
Amanita verna
Deadly poisonous — never eat any part of it.
If someone has eaten it, call emergency services or your poison control centre.
Foraging: Never eat a wild mushroom on a photo or an app’s word. Many deadly species look like edible ones.
About
Amanita verna, commonly known as the fool's mushroom or the spring destroying angel, is a deadly poisonous basidiomycete fungus, one of many in the genus Amanita. Occurring in Europe in spring, A. verna associates with various deciduous and coniferous trees. The caps, stipes and gills are all white in colour.
- Family
- Amanitaceae
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- Name
- Amanita verna
- Slug
- amanita-verna
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Family
- Amanitaceae
- Genus
- Amanita
- Species
- verna
- Wikidata QID
- Q571885
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 5
- Data completeness
- 43
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