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false death cap

A Dictionary of Plant Sciences | 1998 | 266 words | Copyright

false death cap The common name for the fruit body of the fungus Amanita citrina (A. mappa). A. citrina resembles the death cap, A. phalloides, but is not poisonous. It is common throughout the northern hemisphere on the ground in woodland in late summer and autumn.

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