Fungi > Basidiomycota > Agaricomycetes > Agaricales > Amanitaceae > Amanita > Amanita verna

Amanita verna

Synonyms:

Wikipedia Abstract

Amanita verna, commonly known as the fool's mushroom, destroying angel or the mushroom fool, is a deadly poisonous basidiomycete fungus, one of many in the genus Amanita. Occurring in Europe in spring, A. verna associates with various deciduous and coniferous trees. The large fruit bodies (i.e., the mushrooms) appear in summer and autumn; the caps, stipes and gills are all white in colour.
View Wikipedia Record: Amanita verna

Infraspecies

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Il-Maqluba (l/o Qrendi) 6 Malta  

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0