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Stewart Robert Hinsley writes:
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| You are absolutely correct, do you know that mushrooms can be taken to
| the pharmacy for identification? Out of a whole basket, only one type
| of mine was edible! The others could be eaten, with the exception of
| one sounding like amoneta? but they would taste awful, so the
| pharmacist said. I will stick to buying them in the shop I think.
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| Amanita. That genus contains several deadly fungi, including the death
| cap, fool's mushroom and destroying angel. Wikipedia claims that Amanita
| accounts for 95% of deaths by mushroom poisoning.

The reason that it is so dangerous is that A. phalloides looks exactly
like a field mushroom (Agaricus campestris) in the button stage.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.