Extremely poisonous usually white fungus with a prominent cup-shaped base; differs from edible Agaricus only in its white gills.
1 He then yielded himself to the executioner, who placed the death cap over his face.
2 The death cap is extremely toxic and responsible for 90 per cent of all mushroom poisoning deaths.
3 Look carefully and you may find a few hallucinogenic 'shrooms, and poisonous death cap and destroying angel mushrooms.
4 The death cap is a large mushroom, with a cap ranging from light olive green to greenish yellow in colour.
5 Amatoxin (ingested) Derived from the death cap family of mushrooms, amatoxin destroys your liver and kidneys over several days.
6 The most dangerous variety is the death cap , usually found near deciduous trees, especially around oaks, in some Melbourne suburbs and rural areas.
7 The victims had been waiting for liver transplants after eating the death cap mushroom, which looks very similar to a popular edible Chinese mushroom.
8 At that moment the case holding the death caps slipped from my hand.
9 Then I could throw in a handful of death caps .
10 News of the deaths capped a day of violence which started in the early hours.
11 Climbing the steps, gnawing on a bunch of death caps , slowly lifting the hatch from below.
12 I knew I had to toss in the death caps and shut the door, but I felt like I was going to pass out.
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