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Fruiting bodies of the death cap in English woodland. The death cap, which can quite easily be mistaken for the edible common field mushroom, is particularly dangerous because there is no known antidote. It takes only 20 gm/0.7 oz of fresh fungus to kill an adult human being, death resulting from acute liver failure.
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Field, or meadow mushroom (Agaricus campestris). The edible field mushroom is one of about 60 species of Agaricus, a genus of gill fungi. The gills on the underside of the cap or pileus, contain the reproductive spore-bearing cells. Unlike plants, mushrooms (which are classified as part of the fungi kingdom) are not photosynthetic, but absorb food from the organic matter they live on or within. Agaricus bisporus, a close relative of the field mushroom, is the most widely commercially-cultivated mushroom.
Fruiting body of certain fungi (see fungus), consisting of an upright stem and a spore-producing cap with radiating gills on the undersurface. There are many edible species belonging to the genus Agaricus, including the field mushroom (A. campestris). See also toadstool.
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