Deadly webcap

Cortinarius rubellus

Русское название: Паутинник красивейший

Contains orellanine, a toxin linked to severe kidney injury. Symptoms can be substantially delayed after eating the fungus. Brown forest mushrooms can be deceptively similar, so photographs are not reliable identification tools.

✳ Scientific names are used to reduce confusion between local names.

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Safety information

Never decide to eat a wild mushroom from a photograph or online description. A mistake can be fatal. For mushroom ingestion or suspected poisoning, contact emergency medical services or a poison centre immediately, even if symptoms have not appeared.

Irish Poisons Centre mushroom safety ↗

◎Distribution

Europe, especially northern and upland forests

♧Habitat

Coniferous woodland and acidic soils

✺Identification limits

Images and brief descriptions are for learning, not for reliably identifying a specimen. Take particular care with poisonous plants and mushrooms.

Further reading and image creditsCortinarius rubellus — Wikipedia overview ↗Photo, author and license — Wikimedia Commons ↗

Identification is never guaranteed by a photo. Scientific names are used to reduce confusion between local names.

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