Green fly agaric or death cap considered one of the most poisonous gifts of the forest. Even experienced mushroom pickers can confuse it with edible russula. To protect yourself and your family from poisoning with a pale toadstool, it is advisable to carefully study its appearance, photo and detailed description.
Amanita green: description
The body of the mushroom consists of a cap and a leg. The cap is in the shape of a hemisphere or a flat grayish, pale green or olive color with a darker and slightly convex center. The edges of it are smooth, with numerous membranes, pulp and caps, and white legs visible from the inside. In diameter, the hat can reach 15 cm, in young specimens it is often covered with foil.
A thin cylinder-shaped foot at the base has a thickening resembling a potty, tightly wrapping it, its color is the same as that of the top. A filmy skirt ring frames the leg closer to the top. The mushroom has no smell, it is noteworthy that even spores are poisonous to it. 
The habitat of the mushroom is a pale grebe - illuminated by the sun glades of mixed and deciduous forests, it grows both in groups and singly. The young mushroom is very similar to champignon, and more adult to green russula.
Read also about the benefits and dangers of mushrooms for the body.
Similar types: how to distinguish toadstool?
To distinguish the snag from edible mushrooms does not hurt to study the photo of the toadstool and a mushroom similar to it. People focus only on the skirt around the legs, but quite often it is either mild or damaged as in the photo below. You can distinguish a young mushroom from a champignon by the following features:
- champignon does not have a thickening on the stem at the base;
- the color of the mushroom cap, unlike the toadstool, is pink, sometimes purple.
What the russula looks like unlike a toadstool: - lack of russula in the thickening of the base of the leg;
- the head of the adult russula is slightly concave in the center.
Did you know? The fact that this mushroom is deadly poisonous was well known in ancient times, and the fact that heat treatment does not absolutely reduce the toxicity of the product was well known. Agrippina poisoned the Roman Emperor Claudius with mushrooms, clearing the way to the throne for her son Nero.In almost all edible mushrooms, the inside of the cap is colored pink, brownish, or even red, in toadstool it is snow-white. The legs of edible mushrooms are always strong and even, and in snares they are often thin and crooked. However, due to poor ecology, such clear signs are not always present.
Important! If you are not sure that there is an edible mushroom in front of you, it is better not to risk it and not to collect something suspicious.
Edible mushrooms such as aspen weed, white podgruzdki, boletus, russula, champignons, mokhovik, porcini mushrooms and mushrooms are sources of biologically valuable food components: proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins and microelements.
The first signs of poisoning and help
The bad thing is that the poisoning can not be disturbed immediately, manifesting itself in 6-12 hours - this greatly complicates the treatment. Typical symptoms of poisoning:
- sudden nausea and vomiting, which is difficult to relieve;
- diarrhea, with stool may be with blood and mucus;
- cutting and stitching pains in the stomach;
- intense thirst, feeling of dry mucous membranes;
- weakness, headache;
- total apathy or intense excitement;
- blurred vision and clouding of consciousness.
To avoid severe poisoning and even death, see how to distinguish between false foam and ordinary agarics.
If there is a suspicion of mushroom poisoning, you must immediately call the ambulance. Before the arrival of specialists perform the following actions:
- Clear the stomach (drink a pale pink solution of manganese or warm salt water, induce vomiting, pressing on the base of the tongue with your fingers).
- Drink a lot to make up for water loss.
- Take a laxative and sorbents.
Important! These actions are inappropriate, if the victim already has abundant vomiting and diarrhea, the only thing that can be done while waiting for an ambulance is to drink a lot, to prevent dehydration of the body, take a sorbent ("BUTdead coal").In conclusion, I would like to say: pale toadstool, despite its harmless appearance in the photo, according to mortality statistics among the population, is ahead of cases of poisonous insect and snake bites. It is not necessary to collect mushrooms, if you are not sure of their edibility and safety.
