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Trying to ID a mysterious fruit
In article , Stewart Robert Hinsley writes: | | 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. | | 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. |
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