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The genus Amanita contains about 600 species of agarics, including some of the most toxic known mushrooms found worldwide, as well as some well-regarded edible species (and many species of unknown edibility).
Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric or fly amanita, [5] is a basidiomycete of the genus Amanita. It is a large white- gilled , white-spotted, and usually red mushroom. Despite its easily distinguishable features, A. muscaria is a fungus with several known variations, or subspecies .
Amanita phalloides is the most poisonous of all known mushrooms. [6] [7] [8] It is estimated that as little as half a mushroom contains enough toxin to kill an adult human. [9] It is also the deadliest mushroom worldwide, responsible for 90% of mushroom-related fatalities every year. [10]
Mushroom poisoning is usually the result of ingestion of wild mushrooms after misidentification of a toxic mushroom as an edible species. The most common reason for this misidentification is a close resemblance in terms of color and general morphology of the toxic mushrooms species with edible species.
Mahori dust Amanita New Zealand Amanita parcivolvata: Ringless False Fly Amanita America Amanita parvipantherina: Asian Small Panther Amanita China Amanita petalinivolva: South America Amanita roseotincta: North America Amanita rubrovolvata: Red volva Amanita Asia Amanita subfrostiana: False Frost's Amanita China Amanita velatipes: Veiled-Bulb ...
Another European species of Amanita referred to as the destroying angel, Amanita verna—also referred to as the "Fool's mushroom"—was first described in France in 1780. [2] Destroying angels are among the most toxic known mushrooms; both they and the closely related death caps (A. phalloides) contain amatoxins. [1]
Amanita pantherinoides, commonly known as the western panther [2] or western American false panther [3] is a species of mushroom in the family Amanitaceae. It is poisonous, containing ibotenic acid and muscimol .
Death cap mushrooms are a poisonous fungi, according to Britannica. "They are the deadliest mushrooms," Jamie Alan , associate professor of pharmacology and toxicology at Michigan State University ...