amanita: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Amanita

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Destroying angel

A ring of white mushrooms grows in a circle on the forest floor among grass and leaf litter, with trees and shrubs surrounding the area.

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.

Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria)

Amanita pantherina, commonly called panther cap, is a type of toadstool, an inedible or poisonous mushroom.

Witness the growing and dying of the fly agaric

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death cap fly agaric panther cap Amanita virosa Amanita verna grisette blusher mushroom Amanita ocreata Caesar’s mushroom brown American star-footed amanita

Mushrooms growing in forest. (vegetable; fungus; mushroom; macrofungi; epigeous)

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