Amanita virosa (Destroying angel)

Like an angel, they are beautifully snow-white. But this noblewoman is deadly poisonous ! Victims suffer tremendous agony and go to die by the destroying cell of liver and kidney. Amanitin is responsible for the death. Nevertheless, I love them because of their lily-white beauty.

This species nowadays is divided to three or four kinds. It is not my business to mention it in details. What is important is that most of them are deadly poisonous.









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(14th July, 1999 at Aikawa)

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