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Amanita virosa
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 virosa is a species of fungus in the class Agaricomycetes. In the UK, it has the recommended English name of destroying angel and is known internationally as the European destroying angel. Basidiocarps are agaricoid (mushroom-shaped) and pure white with a ring on the stipe and a sack-like volva at the base.
- Family
- Amanitaceae
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- Name
- Amanita virosa
- Slug
- amanita-virosa
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Family
- Amanitaceae
- Genus
- Amanita
- Species
- virosa
- Wikidata QID
- Q472817
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 5
- Data completeness
- 43
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