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From phallus (lat) = Phallus. Due to its young shape.
Common name = Death Cap or Deadly White Cap.
CAP: 7 to 15 cm in diameter. Ovoid cap when young, then hemispherical and finally stretched out. Viscose when wet, variable colour, from yellow to green, sometimes nearly brown and white in the smooth var. Alba.Margne, it usually does not have any whitish remains from the hairs in form of plaques.
GILLS: White, tight, free, with lamelules, pot-bellied.
STEM: 7-15 x 1-2 cm, slimmer, cylindrical, narrower at the top, white or rather green, with a white ring, high, wide volva, sacciform, membranose.
FLESH: White, slightly green under the cuticle, soft, odourless when young and foul smell when mature.
HABITAT: Autumn, in any type of wood. Common.
EDIBILITY: DEADLY. One of these toadstools can kill an adult.
OBSERVATIONS: This is the most dangerous toadstool due to the fact that it is very common. It is usually eaten by silverfish, and as popular saying goes, if those animals can eat them, they should be handled with care. It is dangerous to confuse them with R.virescens, that do not have volva or ring, R.heterophylla, which is the same, and Tricholoma sejunctum, which is very similar in colour, but neither does it have a ring or volva and is bitter. It has numerous varieties depending on the colour of the cuticle.
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