European destroying angel
Amanita virosa
Genus Amanita. Family Amanitaceae. Order Agaricales.
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Description
Amanita virosa, the European destroying angel, is DEADLY POISONOUS. The flesh is white and smells unpleasant, of rotting potatoes. It forms mycorrhiza with various conifers and broad-leaved trees and prefers sandy soils in damp spruce and pine forest and among bilberry, but also occurs in mixed and broad-leaved woodland. Season: June to October. Translated from the Russian-language Wikipedia.
Traits
- Edibility
- Deadly poisonous
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Photographs
Photo Вячеслава Степанова
Photo Wikipedia, Miika Silfverberg
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Mordecai Cubitt Cooke / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Links
Source: Wikipedia (Russian)