Amanita verna / Destroying Angel / Sprng Amanita / White Death Cup

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Name

Scientific Name: Amanita verna
Genus: Amanita
Species: verna
Common Name: Destroying Angel; Sprng Amanita; White Death Cup

Description

Scale: nat. size
Herbarium Number: 1937

Collection Event Data

Collection Location: Near St. Hubert's Inn, Keene Valley, Essex Co., N. Y. (Adirondack Mountains). In flat low wet place in woods, near a stream, amongst leaves and pine needles.
Collection Date: September 5, 1902

Notes

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Notes: Compare also Herb. no. 862. [Spores] 480x; Spore print in Herb. under no. 1937. Gills fairly close, unequal, rounded behind. Stem almost smooth, at first quite solid. Odor repulsive and very marked, not unlike opium in bulk.
Creator: Louis C. C. Krieger
General Information: The content of these records were transcribed from the original handwritten information, and although every attempt was made to do so accurately, we cannot guarantee the accuracy of the transcription or the accuracy of the original information.; Common names were obtained from the following sources:; Miller, Orson K. and David F. Farr. An index of the common fungi of North America, synonymy and common names. Vaduz [Liechtenstein]: J. Cramer, 1975. 206 p.; Lincoff, Gary. The National Audubon Society field guide to North American mushrooms. New York: Knopf: Distributed by Random House, c1998. 926 p.; Smith, Alexander H. The mushroom hunter's field guide. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, c1980. 316 p.

Technical Details

Collection: University of Michigan Herbarium, Krieger's Watercolors of Fungi
Image Size: 1905 x 2505
File Size: 315 KB
Record: 016
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/f/fuwatic/x-016/wn5

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Full citation: "Amanita verna; Destroying Angel; Sprng Amanita; White Death Cup." In the digital collection University of Michigan Herbarium, Krieger's Watercolors of Fungi. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/f/fuwatic/x-016/wn5. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 24, 2024.