The destroying angel mushroom Everybody has heard of angels. Good angels and bad angels. Not everyone has heard of the destroying angel. The destroying angel mushroom is beautifully white, with long slender stalks and elegant caps. The deadly Amanitas or destroying angel mushroom are noted for the following characteristics: White or cream colored gills with white spore prints, gills attached to the stalk but free from the cap, at the base of the stalk a …showed first 75 words of 456 total…

…showed last 75 words of 456 total…Amanita Verns Bibliography Ash, Cindy.Plant Doctors Warn: Beware Death Angel (Aminita Verna) and Death Cap (Amanita virosa), www.scisoc.org/opae/media//mushrooms.htm 4/20/99 Biggs, Alton. Kapicka, Chris and Lundgreen, Linda, Biology the Dynamics of Life. (1998) New York, NewYork Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Discovering Science www.discovering science/mushroom/destroying/angel. /htm 4/20/99 Microsoft.Fungi. Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia, 4/22/99 Warning: Destroying Angel (aminita verna) and Death Cap (amanita virosa). www.ednet.ns.ca/educ/museum/poison/angel/htm 4/20/99