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Deadly dapperling
Lepiota brunneoincarnata
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
Lepiota brunneoincarnata, also known as the deadly dapperling, is a gilled mushroom of the genus Lepiota in the order Agaricales. It is known to contain deadly amounts of alpha-Amanitin and was responsible for a fatal poisoning in Spain, and for the deaths of four young members of the same family in Tunisia. It is widely distributed in Europe and temperate regions of Asia.
- Family
- Agaricaceae
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- Name
- Lepiota brunneoincarnata
- Slug
- lepiota-brunneoincarnata
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Family
- Agaricaceae
- Genus
- Lepiota
- Species
- brunneoincarnata
- Wikidata QID
- Q2375450
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 5
- Data completeness
- 28
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