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unusual facts about Phalloides


Phalloides

Amanita phalloides, the death cap, a poisonous basidiomycete fungus species


Alpha-Amanitin

It is possibly the most deadly of all the amatoxins, toxins found in several species of the Amanita genus of mushrooms, one being the death cap (Amanita phalloides) as well as the destroying angel, a complex of similar species, principally A. virosa and A. bisporigera.


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