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This is a compendium of poisonous fungi. See also mushroom poisoning. List of toxic mushroom species. There are 119 poisonous fungus species listed below.
Mushroom poisoning is usually the result of ingestion of wild mushrooms after misidentification of a toxic mushroom as an edible species. The most common reason for this misidentification is a close resemblance in terms of color and general morphology of the toxic mushrooms species with edible species.
Amanita phalloides is the most poisonous of all known mushrooms. [6] [7] [8] It is estimated that as little as half a mushroom contains enough toxin to kill an adult human. [9] It is also the deadliest mushroom worldwide, responsible for 90% of mushroom-related fatalities every year. [10]
The genus Amanita was first published with its current meaning by Christian Hendrik Persoon in 1797. [1] Under the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Persoon's concept of Amanita, with Amanita muscaria (L.) Pers. as the type species, has been officially conserved against the older Amanita Boehm (1760), which is considered a synonym of Agaricus L. [2]
2-amino-4,5-hexadienoic acid and possibly other toxic npAAs: liver & kidney Woodland Japan and Pacific Northwest: Amanita sphaerobulbosa Hongo: Asian abrupt-bulbed Lepidella 2-amino-4,5-hexadienoic acid and possibly other toxic npAAs: liver & kidney Mixed woodlands, eastern Asia Amanita subpallidorosea Qing Cai, Zhu L. Yang & Y.Y. Cui ...
If you think you or someone you know may have eaten a poisonous mushroom, call Poison Help at 1-800-222-1222 or visit PoisonHelp.org. This article was originally published on TODAY.com.
The warm, soggy summer across much of the Midwest has produced a bumper crop of wild mushrooms — and a surge in calls to poison control centers. At the Minnesota Regional Poison Center, calls ...
Another European species of Amanita referred to as the destroying angel, Amanita verna—also referred to as the "Fool's mushroom"—was first described in France in 1780. [2] Destroying angels are among the most toxic known mushrooms; both they and the closely related death caps (A. phalloides) contain amatoxins. [1]