Poisonous Mushroom - Amanita pantherina

include poisonous mushrooms Amanita pantherina on one of the first places.As virulence he is ahead of his brother - a red mushroom.But he looks less bright and flashy.Amanita pantherina at the beginning of its growth can be confused with edible mushrooms.But there are features that will help identify dangerous poisonous mushroom.

Amanita pantherina can be found in virtually any wood, it starts to grow actively, when the average daily temperature is set at around 20 degrees.Highlights: near this fungus can not find insects.Even obsessive mosquitoes and midges are completely absent in the area where this fungus grows.They killed one of its smell.And the smell is really very intrusive and unpleasant.

If you look at the leg, you can clearly identify as a thickening of the bottom of the tuber, is a characteristic feature of which should serve as a stop sign.The second distinguishing feature - is the presence of a ring of young mushrooms.Pantherina Amanita in the initial stage of growth of the leg has a dense white with a ring in the middle, which eventually disappears.The ring is often torn, blotchy, fragile.It disappears from the heavy rains, and not the old mushrooms.

As the leg is stretched to a 7-11 cm, becomes finer (of 1.5 cm in diameter), because of which breaks easily.The entire surface of the stipe is covered with tiny hairs.To cut mushroom found sticky white pulp.At the same color on the cut does not change from the pulp exudes an unpleasant odor.Amanita pantherina The taste sweet.

cap color - from light olive to brown.The shape of the cap first ovoid, as growth becomes more flat, diameter reaches 10-12 cm. The entire surface is covered with brown cap with white spots (or flakes), the remnants of the original shell.Some specimens reach a truly gigantic proportions, and the hat becomes concave, like a large saucer.Inside the cap plate.The plates were white, dense, loosely fitting together.

Amanita pantherina (pictured above) contains a particularly dangerous toxins inherent in all Amanita and giotsiamin and scopolamine, typical of Datura, nightshade and henbane.This combination acts instantaneously on a human body, causing blood clotting, paralysis of smooth muscle and cardiac arrest.We poisoned convulsions, breathing difficulties, paralysis and death.The chances of recovery are left due to the high toxicity of substances caught in the body.

come across the idea that a mushroom is poisonous, must first of its aggressive stain and odor.During the drought pantherina mushroom loses its decorative effect, dries up and crumbles at the edges, leg breaks.But the variability of climatic conditions of its appearance also changed: vary the color and size of the cap.If you know all the signs of poisonous amanita pantherina, it confused with some other fungi it is quite difficult.It is important to avoid getting into a poisonous mushroom fraternity representative on the table, even in a small fragment of the acute poisoning.