Top 13 Poisonous Mushrooms
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Many Mushrooms have Medicinal properties and bring positive health benefits. But our wast kingdom of fungi also has toxic, poisonous and even DEADLY ones.
First step to foraging mushrooms is to learn which ones are definitely not for pot!
And as someone joked: all are edible, but some only once.
PLEASE NOTE: It is important to know what type of mushrooms are you consuming. Don't take anyone world for proper identification. It is 100% your responsibility to do your own research before consuming any type of wild harvested mushrooms.
ALL THE INFORMATION ON THIS WEBSITE ARE ONLY MY OWN THOUGHTS BASED ON MANY YEARS OF DISCOVERY AND OBSERVATION. I DON'T TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY INCONVENIENT SITUATIONS OR BODY REACTION AFTER YOU CONSUMING ANY OF MUSHROOM SPECIES.
Here is the List of 13 most poisonous mushrooms.
First two: DEATH CAP & DESTROYING ANGEL are DEADLY!!!
1. Death Cap (Amanita phalloides)
Causing 90% of poisons, MOST DEADLY FUNGUS KNOWN!!!
Picture credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Amanita_phalloides_1.JPG
HABITAT
Broad-leaved woods
SEASON
Aug- November
3. Deadly Webcab (Cortinarius rubellus)
DEADLY POISONOUS, poison is called OVELLANINE.
HABITAT
Conifer, spruce wood
RARE IN UK
SEASON
Aug- November
4. Funeral Bell (Galerina marginata)
Other names: Autumn Skullcap. Contains AMATOXINS.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Gifth%C3%A4ublinge.jpg
HABITAT
Mixed, dead & decaying wood
SEASON
August- November
5. Conocybe filars (Fool's Conecap/ Pholiotina rugosa)
DEADLY! Contains the same mycotoxins as Death Cap (AMATOXINS) which are highly toxic to liver. They are responsible for many deaths as often mistaken with PSILOCYBE SPECIES.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pholiotina_rugosa#/media/File:Pholiotina_rugosa_62373.jpg
HABITAT
Lawn, compost, can grow on wood chips
SEASON
year
6. Deadly Dapperling (Lepiota brunneoincarnata)
DEADLY POISONOUS! Contains AMATOXINS, IT CAN EASILY BE MISTAKEN WITH EDIBLE PARASOL MUSHROOM.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Lepiota_brunneoincarnata_060823w.jpg
HABITAT
broadleaf and mixed wood, grassland
SEASON
July- November
7. Fool's Webcap (Cortinarius orellanus)
DEADLY! Highly toxic, contains orellanine, when eaten destroys kidney and damages liver. Often unreversible.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Corellanus.jpg
HABITAT
hardwood: oak
sometimes conifers
SEASON
Aug- November
8. Ivory Funnel / Fool's Funnel(Clitocybe dealbata/ rivulosa)
DEADLY POISONOUS! Contains potentially deadly amount of muscarine.
Picture credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Clitocybe_dealbata_1.jpg
HABITAT
meadows, grassy areas
Rivulosa coastal sandy areas
SEASON
July- December
9. Satan's Bolete (Boletus satanas)
HABITAT
chalky soil: beech, oak
SEASON
June- September
10. Angel's Wings (Pleurocybella porrigens)
This beautiful fairy like mushroom, once considered edible, caused fatalities in Japan and should be treated as DEADLY POISONOUS!
HABITAT
damp, mossy, shaded conifer forests
SEASON
Aug- November
False Morel (Gyromitra esculenta)
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Picture credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyromitra_esculenta#/media/File:Fr%C3%BChjahrslorchel.JPG
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13. Podostroma cornu- damae
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