death cap
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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.
Fungus of the amanita group, the most poisonous mushroom known. The fruiting body, or mushroom, has a scaly white cap and a collarlike structure (volva) near the base of the stalk. (Amanita phalloides, family Agaricaceae.)
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