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The Blusher
Amanita rubescens, the blusher, is a Eurasian Amanita with a reddish-brown cap strewn with small whitish to mahogany warts, a ring that is striate on its upper surface, and white flesh that turns pink when bruised or exposed to air. It is edible only when cooked. North American 'blushers' belong to a complex of related species.
Edible only when thoroughly cooked. Raw flesh contains a hemolytic protein destroyed by cooking; large raw amounts can cause severe anaemia. The poisonous panther cap (A. pantherina) is similar, but its flesh does not redden and its ring is not striate. Several related species are hard to separate, and parasitized specimens are hard to recognize; eat only expertly identified, cooked specimens.
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