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MUOB 15463
Amanita smithiana Bas
Amanitaceae
Debbie Viess
MUOB 15463
2008-12-13
2008-12-13
United States, California, Plumas,
40.009 -120.8445
When my husband handed me a heavy bag with this large white mushroom, I at first thought that it might be a matsie, as it had an oddly spicy scent. that would have been a bad mistake! Smithiana is a highly toxic amanita that produces very serious toxins that attack the kidneys; despite its reputation as a "deadly" mushroom tho, I could find NO evidence of its ever having caused a death.
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