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Fatal Dapperling
A small, pinkish brown scaly Lepiota of lawns, gardens, parks and woods that contains amatoxins and can be lethal. Its cap breaks into concentric rings of pink-brown scales over a white background, and its stem has felty bands of the same color. People have died after mistaking it for the fairy ring mushroom.
Deadly poisonous: contains amatoxins (alpha-amanitin). Symptoms begin 6-12 hours after eating, ease, then liver failure follows. Fatalities include a 1988 death in British Columbia, and a 2010 case near Chicago required a liver transplant. Never eat small white-gilled lawn mushrooms with brownish or pinkish scaly caps.
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