Amanita Exitialis

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Amanita exitialis, also known as the Guangzhou destroying angel, is a mushroom of the large genus Amanita. It is distributed in eastern Asia, and probably also in India where it has been misidentified as A. verna. Deadly poisonous, it is a member of section Phalloideae and related to the death cap A. phalloides. The fruit bodies (mushrooms) are white, small to medium-sized with caps up to 7 cm (2.8 in) in diameter, a somewhat friable ring and a firm volva. Unlike most agaric mushrooms which typically have four-spored basidia (spore-bearing cells), the basidia of A. exitialis are almost entirely two-spored. Eight people were fatally poisoned in China after consuming the mushroom in 2000, and another 20 have been fatally poisoned since that incident. Molecular analysis shows that the species has a close phylogenetic relationship with three other toxic white Amanitas: A. subjunquillea var. alba, A. virosa and A. bisporigera.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 551055973X
• ISBN13: 9785510559736
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Book on Demand Ltd.
• Length: 46 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.3" x 11.0"