It contains the same mycotoxins as the death cap.
The death cap is doubly dangerous because people can pick it in the infantile stage before its characteristics become clear.
He performed a successful auxiliary liver transplant last year on a 14-year-old girl who had eaten a death cap.
Deadly poisonous, it is a member of section phalloideae and related to the death cap A. phalloides.
It is often found growing amid normally colored death caps.
The death cap is native to Europe, where it is widespread.
Consumption of the death cap is a medical emergency requiring hospitalization.
It looks fairly similar to a young death cap, it is believed by some mycologists.
Just like the death cap, it contains amatoxins, primarily alpha-amanitin, which can cause liver failure.
It differs from the death cap by its fragile volva and tendency to bruise brown.