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Galerina marginata

Русское название: Галерина окаймлённая

A small brown wood-growing fungus containing dangerous amatoxins. Many little brown mushrooms resemble one another, and visual shortcuts are unreliable. Suspected ingestion warrants emergency medical advice even before symptoms.

✳ 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

Temperate regions including Europe and North America

♧Habitat

Decaying wood, logs and woody debris

✺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 creditsGalerina marginata — 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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