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