Fungi > Agarics
The Fool’s Webcap (Cortinarius orellanus), historically known across Europe as the Mountain Webcap or Deadly Webcap, is an infamous, exquisitely colored, and lethally poisonous agaric mushroom belonging to the family Cortinariaceae. Native to the warm, temperate...
Fungi > Agarics
The Western North American Destroying Angel (Amanita ocreata), also famously known along the Pacific coast as the death angel, is an infamous, exquisitely beautiful, and lethally poisonous agaric basidiomycete fungus belonging to the family Amanitaceae. Endemic to the...
Fungi > Agarics
The Tawny Grisette (Amanita fulva), also known historically as the orange-brown ringless amanita, is an elegant, widely recognized ectomycorrhizal basidiomycete fungus belonging to the cosmopolitan family Amanitaceae. Flourishing across the temperate deciduous,...
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The Fool’s Mushroom (Amanita verna), widely feared across Europe as the ‘Spring Destroying Angel’ or white death cap, is one of the most notoriously lethal and deceptively pure-white mushrooms on the planet. Belonging to the deadly section...
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The Deadly Webcap (Cortinarius rubellus, formerly known as Cortinarius speciosissimus) is one of the most deceptively lethal and pharmacologically insidious mushrooms on the planet. Widespread across the ancient, mossy boreal and conifer forests of northern Europe and...
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The Funeral Bell (Galerina marginata), also ominously known as the deadly galerina, deadly skullcap, or autumnal marginata, is one of the most toxic and lethal wood-decaying mushrooms on Earth. Small, unassuming, and deceptively nondescript, this brownish-ochre agaric...
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The Violet Webcap (Cortinarius violaceus), celebrated among mycologists as the royal purple webcap, is an extraordinarily striking, deep-purple gilled mushroom belonging to the webcap family Cortinariaceae. The type species of the gargantuan genus Cortinarius—the...
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