7 of the World’s Most Poisonous Mushrooms: Quick Facts

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Webcap mushroom

A single death cap mushroom, Amanita phalloides, with a pale greenish cap and white gills, grows from the forest floor among fallen leaves and branches.

Conocybe filaris

Cluster of deadly webcap mushrooms (Cortinarius) with brownish-orange caps growing among green moss and forest vegetation.

Autumn skullcap mushroom

Destroying angel

Podostroma cornu-damae

Deadly dapperling

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