How to Safely Identify The Edible Puffball Family of Mushrooms Puffball mushrooms overall are a very common and easy to identify family, one of the safest for beginners. It’s one of the first species that I remembered the Latin name for. Lycopodium roughly translates to ‘Wolfs Fart’ I guess it’s…
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Death cap / Summer/Autumn/ Deadly Common Name Death Cap None Edible Deadly Toxic!! Botanical Name Amanita phalloides Meaning of Botanical Name Phalloides refers to the shape of the young mushroom emerging from its egg sack. Family Amanitaceae Known Hazards DEADLY, this mushroom contains amotoxin, which in the first 6-12 hours…