Deathcap

– Cap, convex to expanded, variable in color, ranging from white-yellow to yellow-green or gray-brown, usually with darker innate radial fibrils, occasionally with scattered remnants of the universal veil.
– Cap margin not striate.
– Gills free, white, sometimes with a faint greenish-yellow tint.
– Stem white, often with faint greenish zigzag pattern.
– Ring thin, white to greenish, easily disappearing.
– Flesh white, with a mild taste.
– Odor weak when young, becoming stronger with age, sweetish and pungent, unpleasant.
– Volva large, sack-like, white, often greenish inside.

Grows with oak and beech on rich soil in deciduous forests, parks and meadows.

Contains hepatotoxic toxins, amatoxins, which can be life-threatening.