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Deadly Webcap
The deadly webcap, a tawny to date-brown Cortinarius of wet conifer and mixed woods. It contains orellanine and has caused kidney failure in foragers who mistook it for chanterelles, winter chanterelles or ceps.
Deadly poisonous. It contains orellanine, which causes kidney failure, often irreversible; symptoms usually begin 2-14 days after eating. There is no antidote. It has been mistaken for chanterelles and Craterellus tubaeformis, which have blunt ridges instead of true gills, and for ceps, which have pores.
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