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Chlorine Lepidella
A small to medium white Amanita of eastern North America, covered in thick whitish to grayish powdery veil material and smelling strongly of chlorine. It belongs to the difficult section Lepidella, and the name is often applied loosely to similar white, chlorine-scented species. Strictly, it refers to an oak-associated species found mostly below the Great Lakes.
Not edible; edibility is poorly studied and the species is generally regarded as toxic. No member of section Lepidella should be eaten. White Amanitas of this kind can be confused with the deadly destroying angels (Amanita bisporigera and relatives, amatoxins), which have a smooth bald white cap without powder or warts, a membranous ring, and a sack-like volva rather than a powdery bulb.
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