Destroying angel

DETAILS - The toxicity of certain amanita mush rooms has been well known for centuries. The main toxic species in the United States are Amanita phalloides (Deathcupor Destroying Angel), A. verna, and A. virosa. They contain a mixture of the toxins amanitin, phallpidm, and phalloin. Heat weakens or destroys the toxins, as evidenced by the fact that fresh pressed Amanitajuice is three times more toxic than the boiled juice. There is no antidote for these toxins -treatment is largely symptomatic. The liver is the main target ana is virtually destroyed upon short... 

Winslow, Ola Elizabeth. 1974. A Destroying Angel The Conquest of Smallpox in Colonial Boston. Boston, MA Houghton Mifflin. 

Contraindications Before harvesting these or any mushrooms for ingestion one should establish positive identification. Several closely related amanita species are extremely toxic. These include A. pantherina, A. virosa, A. verna, and A. phalloides (destroying angel). Large amounts of A. muscaria can also be fatal. Three mushrooms is the absolute maximum recommended. 

Amanita bisporigera, A. phalloides (death cap mushroom), A. ocreata, A. verna, A. virosa (destroying angel mushroom) (Agaricaceae) Amanita phalbides (death cap mushroom) (Agaricaceae)... 

Common Name(s) Destroying Angel Poison Amanitin... 

It is a little like gathering wild mushrooms. You may know what a safe puffball looks like. The range may be full of blue painted 3.5-inch rockets. But the little young stunted destroying angel may have grown in the clump of puffballs. That rusted 3.5-inch may become your destroying devil. 

Virotoxins. A group of monocyclic heptapeptides from the toadstool Amanita vimsa (destroying angel). Together with the amanitins and phallotoxins, they represent the third class of poisons in death caps. Six compounds are known viroisin is the main toxin. 

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