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Fool's Webcap
The fool's webcap, a European Cortinarius containing orellanine, a nephrotoxin that causes delayed and often irreversible kidney failure. It has caused fatal mass poisonings, and victims have mistaken it for chanterelles.
Deadly poisonous. It contains orellanine, which destroys kidney tissue. Symptoms usually begin 2-14 days after eating, often after irreversible damage has occurred. There is no antidote. People have mistaken it for chanterelles, which have blunt ridges rather than true gills and no rusty spore print.
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