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The name destroying angel applies to several similar, closely related species of deadly all-white mushrooms in the genus Amanita. [1] They are Amanita virosa in Europe and A. bisporigera and A. ocreata in eastern and western North America, respectively. [ 1 ]
The destroying angel passes through Egypt. [1]In the Hebrew Bible, the destroying angel (Hebrew: מַלְאָך הַמַשְׁחִית, malʾāḵ hamašḥīṯ), also known as mashḥit (מַשְׁחִית mašḥīṯ, 'destroyer'; plural: מַשְׁחִיתִים, mašḥīṯīm, 'spoilers, ravagers'), is an entity sent out by God on several occasions to deal with numerous peoples.
In the UK, it has the recommended English name of destroying angel [1] and is known internationally as the European destroying angel. [2] Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are agaricoid (mushroom-shaped) and pure white with a ring on the stem and a sack-like volva at the base. The species is deadly poisonous. It occurs in Europe and northern Asia. [3]
The mushroom belongs to the same section (Phalloideae) and genus (Amanita) as several deadly poisonous fungi including the death cap (A. phalloides) and several all-white species of Amanita known as "destroying angels": A. bisporigera of eastern North America, and the European A. virosa. "Death angel" is used as an alternate common name.
Amanita bisporigera is a deadly poisonous species of fungus in the family Amanitaceae.It is commonly known as the eastern destroying angel amanita, [3] the eastern North American destroying angel or just as the destroying angel, although the fungus shares this latter name with three other lethal white Amanita species, A. ocreata, A. verna and A. virosa.
The term "destroying angel" has been applied to A. phalloides at times, but "death cap" is by far the most common vernacular name used in English. Other common names also listed include "stinking amanita" [ 23 ] and "deadly amanita".
The angel is wreathed in smoke, and is poised to throw a thunderbolt. The Destroying Angel is a visionary work, depicting a wholly imaginary scene rather than a scene from history, literature or mythology. [19] [B] It measures 127.8 cm by 101.9 cm (50 in by 40 in), and depicts an ornate imaginary classical temple. [13]
Amanita verna, commonly known as the fool's mushroom or the spring destroying angel (see destroying angel), [2] is a deadly poisonous basidiomycete fungus, one of many in the genus Amanita. Occurring in Europe in spring, A. verna associates with various deciduous and coniferous trees. The caps, stipes and gills are all white in colour.