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The red-and-white spotted toadstool is a common image in many aspects of popular culture. [29] Garden ornaments and children's picture books depicting gnomes and fairies, such as the Smurfs, often show fly agarics used as seats, or homes. [29] [135] Fly agarics have been featured in paintings since the Renaissance, [136] albeit in a subtle manner.
Poisoning from toad toxin is rare but can kill. [7] It can occur when someone drinks toad soup, eats toad meat or toad eggs, or swallows live toads. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] It can also happen when someone deliberately takes commercial substances made with toad toxins. [ 8 ]
Poisonous mushrooms contain a variety of different toxins that can differ markedly in toxicity. Symptoms of mushroom poisoning may vary from gastric upset to organ failure resulting in death.
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Although many people have a fear of mushroom poisoning by "toadstools", only a small number of the many macroscopic fruiting bodies commonly known as mushrooms and toadstools have proven fatal to humans. This list is not exhaustive and does not contain many fungi that, although not deadly, are still harmful.
Amanita phalloides (/ æ m ə ˈ n aɪ t ə f ə ˈ l ɔɪ d iː z /), commonly known as the death cap, is a deadly poisonous basidiomycete fungus and mushroom, one of many in the genus Amanita.
Amanita virosa is a species of fungus in the class Agaricomycetes.In the UK, it has the recommended English name of destroying angel [1] and is known internationally as the European destroying angel. [2]
Toadstool generally denotes one poisonous to humans. [ 1 ] The standard for the name "mushroom" is the cultivated white button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus ; hence, the word "mushroom" is most often applied to those fungi ( Basidiomycota , Agaricomycetes ) that have a stem ( stipe ), a cap ( pileus ), and gills (lamellae, sing.