– Cap conical to bell-shaped, white, often turning yellow to yellow-brown with age, especially toward the center, sticky when moist.
– Gills free, white.
– Stem white, rather ragged,.
– Stem base bulbous, with a large, sack-like volva that may be difficult to detect as it is deeply embedded in moss.
– Ring thin, often broken, easily disappearing.
Amanitoid agarics
Destroying Angel
Amanita virosa
LC
Least concern
Deadly poisonous
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Characteristics
Ecology
Grows with spruce in damp and mossy coniferous forests and with beech in broadleaf forests.
Notes
Contains cell-damaging toxins, Amatoxins, which can be life-threatening if ingested.
Similar species
It has been confused with various similar species. As a beginner, avoid white mushrooms with white gills.
