Death Cap Mushrooms (Amanita phalloides) | How to identify and avoid this deadly poisonous fungi

[@PilzE.]

It is great that so many folk are starting to get out and relearn their heritage and enjoy the beautiful countryside our nation has to offer. We were all brought up to fear mushrooms and toadstools, which, I guess, is a kind of good thing, especially with these deadly species found so easily. However, a little knowledge, LOTS of referencing, cross-referencing and checking, can lead to an extremely rewarding pursuit. Me and my family can no longer go for a woodland stroll without leaving the path to investigate every dead fall or shady nook in search of mycological treasure!! Thank you so VERY much for sharing these videos. Fishing, foraging, and hunting, now we live in glorious West Cornwall, have become a pleasure for my entire family, and it is video likes yours which are leading us back to our birthright. Kudos, brother! 🤍🍄

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

Thanks that’s great 😁. Yes we do have a fear of mushrooms in this country which is good to a point. But an education on nature is much better, like in Poland and Eastern Europe almost everyone knows the mushrooms there, so don’t fear them

[@PilzE.]

@@UKWILDCRAFTS One of my workmates is married to a Hungarian, and he says in Hungary EVERYONE forages for mushrooms. If you do pick an unknown variety which you are unsure of, you simply take it to the local greengrocers, and they will ID it for you.

[@jessemacaluso]

You're doing God's work my good man

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

😁

[@supremebuffalo6322]

You found basically every part of the Death Cap's life cycle and had them neatly lined up in order. Excellent informative video

[@sparkle_w]

I really liked your video... So clam and informative

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

Thanks 😁🍄

[@neilgcarter]

Great ID of the Death Cap, many thanks for the video. Gives me a lot more confidence in identifying mushrooms.

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

Thanks 😊

[@OleensEmbroidery]

Thank you. Finally a video with a detailed identification of these mushrooms.

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

Thanks 😊

[@Dan.Parker]

Very well done video detailing the poisonous mushroom. The picture at the end is very good for showing all the stages.

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

Thank you 😊🍄

[@beccafirebird]

I really like your mushroom videos. You're very thorough with your IDs. Thank you for this.

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

Thanks 😊

[@DimensionsAndBeyond]

Excellent identification, very helpful, very useful.

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

Thanks 😊

[@mjphadsell]

The video was so informative! Thank you sir, much appreciated. 🙂

[@AlexWindsor]

I keep finding chicken of the woods in my area but always get covered in slugs before it grows big enough to take - they always seem to get to it first! Thanks for another great video

[@dominicharvey6048]

I'm still yet to see any chicken in the woods. I live up near Birmingham

[@AlissaSss23]

Maybe shake them off? I don't always cook mushrooms, sometimes I dry them in the dehydrator and them even grind them to a seasoning powder for soups and sauces 😊

[@dileksincer3585]

Thank you very much, it was very informative.

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

😁🍄

[@moocow2394]

Amazing find, there was so many 🤩in those oak leaves. Great opportunity for some amazing photos and appreciation of a beautiful specimen.💙

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

They are beautiful looking mushrooms 😁

[@kittenmeowie7993]

@@UKWILDCRAFTS What a pity that they are very, very poisonous despite nice appearance of many of their fruiting bodies :(

[@jeanblemings5352]

Super interesting and useful video. Thank you!

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

Thanks 😊

[@gingerspoons6078]

Thanks for creating and sharing 👊✌️🙏✌️👊

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

:)

[@olafjensen4508]

Thanks.. Is there not some mushrooms with a long delayed reaction?

[@melissalambert7615]

Very interesting you can touch them. We have the variety that is red with white dots here in Willamette Valley, Oregon. They used to grow under my neighbor's blue spruce tree. Haven't seen them in few years but local mushroom hunters do post photos.

[@lurid9602]

Amanita Muscaria (aka. Fly Agaric!)

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

Yes as above probably the Amanita muscaria, beautiful mushrooms 😁🍄

[@jasonvoorheis1984]

The shrooms you mention might be amanita muscaria and are edible if they are indeed muscaria.

[@lizohare1740]

Thank you. Good identification on the death cap.

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

Thanks 😊

[@dominicharvey6048]

Love these videos. So informative and yet so relaxing. I have only started foraging myself at the start of this year but I'm a rapid learner. In terms of mushrooms, I have already picked jelly ear and a massive horse mushroom. It was the size of a dinner plate and had no insect damage very delicious. I have recommended your channel in a popular Discord server I use for foraging.

[@AlissaSss23]

That's great! Another easy to harvest mushroom for beginners is blackening polypore, it has no poisonous lookalike and grows in massive rosettes 😊

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

Nice one. Yes horse mushrooms can be huge. Several meals from one shroom 😁

[@zosothezephead837]

Nice vid, thanks!

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

😁

[@Emlane09]

What compound is in them that makes them worse or what do the other mushrooms contain that makes the poison ineffective?

[@Matowix]

Google it

[@carnivorebear6582]

Amatoxins, which are particularly good at destroying your liver (and other organs) over a couple days

[@aguswaluyo577]

Apakah jamur ini tumbuh di Indonesia?

[@Emlane09]

@ the Death cap Mushroom is not found in Indonesia

[@Ukadventuring]

Fantastic video, many thanks. Not that I’m a mushroom forager, but still this information is really useful when wandering around the woods. 👍👍

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

Thanks 😊

[@jameskelman9856]

Nicely done , Thanks . Here in Canada right now I am harvesting Aminita Muscaria , yellow ones with the white spots .

[@mehmeteminayan7872]

Thanks a lot.. Vital informations...

[@liamwinter4512]

Are they different in toxicity depending on age?

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

I’m not sure to be honest. I remember reading somewhere they get more potent as they mature but I’m not 100% on that

[@rawforaging-w9n]

fantastic stuff matey, I wish you would've kept that little baby one in an egg cup n kept it moist to see if it continued to grow, would've been fun to keep updated on insta on it haha. keep on at it! x

[@GitiMisagh]

is the scent deadly

[@STOPPOLICECORRUPTION]

Are other animals in the wild dying from this mushroom ?

[@jasonvoorheis1984]

Thank you from California

[@MarkyBigSmoke]

Thank you for this very useful and informative video.

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

You’re welcome 😊

[@the_grand_tourer]

Thank you, I feel I have a good grasp on the most reliably safe mushrooms, but I can see this could easily be mixed up with eddibles, especially as you say if vulva is hidden. NB - seeing video is so much more informative, I find even the best well known books fail becuase of poor photo's, and very importantly photo's taken in different sitautions, some out doors some in doors, where the lightng can have a massive affect on the colour. I often wish they'd properly colour balance their photos. Your video looks well colour balanced. I'll be back to view more. Cheers.

[@AlissaSss23]

Your observation about book is great! I noticed that myself. I've bought a big pike of mushrooms identifying books last year and I completely forgot about them, this year I have only used mushrooms identifying websites, apps and videos!

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

Thanks 😊. Yes I know what you’re saying with books. I’ve learned most of what I know from books but it definitely helps to see them in person

[@Flipflapflop25]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge it is appreciated 🙏

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

😊

[@Khraw-issan]

Thank you for sharing 👍

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

You’re welcome 😁

[@wk8000]

What do you do if these come up in your vegetable garden? Is your garden box and soil ruined and all the vegetables around them?

[@dreamup8431]

No, you'd have to eat the mushroom flesh itself. Your vegetables will be ok to eat.

[@olafjensen4508]

Why the conufsion? With edible ones

[@shavkat95]

why would I need to look for the vulva, if all amanitas have them? It says nothing then.

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

Not so much to tell apart from other Amanitas, but to distinguish from other families of mushrooms

[@michelle8190]

But how do they taste?

[@davidprice7162]

Pleasant. Literally, they have a pleasant taste and don’t show symptoms for like 7 hours.

[@michelle8190]

@@davidprice7162 i appreciate the real answer. I would imagine poisonous things to taste bad. Many poisonous things do, it’s weird mushrooms don’t play by those rules.

[@davidprice7162]

@@michelle8190 you’re welcome. I only know because I’ve been reading about them in the news after the poisoning recently. Sneaky little buggers. Taste fine, not particularly bright or colorful, make you sick at first, then you think you’re better, then fatally attacks your kidneys and liver.

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

Apparently from people that have survived they taste ok. Yeah not everything poisonous tastes bad, apparently hemlock water dropwort tastes ok from the people that have survived that

[@dalias12]

how did you touch them

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

I said in the video 😁. They aren’t poisonous to touch, only to consume

[@dalias12]

@@UKWILDCRAFTS i just have horrid hearing

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

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[@gazgf]

Thanks.👌

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

:)

[@roelsvideosandstuffs1513]

I think I have a lot of these. Some even just sprouting from ground

[@Matty-d2l]

I've just made an omelette with something looking like that after foraging yesterday I feel OK 👍, just a bit quezy probably from the burger van on route to the forest. UK

[@campingfeed5235]

Rule nr. 1 when learning about picking mushrooms: Learn to distinguish the death cap!

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

Yep 👍

[@LadyMaiUK.LifeinEngland]

❤ beautiful

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

:)

[@danielduesentriebjunior]

In continental Europe there is also an equally poisonous withe variant.

[@АннаЛаврикова-р7ю]

Amanita virosa?

[@sarahfranssen]

After the recent incident in Australia it’s put me off all mushrooms even from the supermarket 😮

[@raaaabert]

I wonder if that lady from Australia, Erin Patterson watched this video?

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

No it happened before I uploaded it :)

[@vacher45]

Has anyone survived eating these and what is the outcome?

[@marcinekporada6651]

Are U fuc### kidding!? Outcome is poor, very painful and long ☠️ if you are lucky, U might be saved by liver transplantation....

[@davidprice7162]

@@marcinekporada6651 Simon Claringbold, from Canberra, Australia ate one accidentally 25 years ago and spent a week in the ICU, was at deaths door, but made a full recovery there genius, so it is entirely possible. Some have more toxins in them than others.

[@Matowix]

@@marcinekporada6651 a women on KZbin made a soup from these and survived fine

[@Bolcjek]

Looks tasty I'd try it

[@janepate]

Where do you buy them?

[@Bolcjek]

@@janepate I'd pick it. Havent seen this one around but I do see the white amanitas sometimes, as well as the red/panther ones.

[@guerillagrowersuk3765]

These death caps taste like pistachio nuts ,very tasty

[@guerillagrowersuk3765]

​@@janepateyou tryna get rid of the husband 😂

[@Bolcjek]

@@guerillagrowersuk3765 Haha I have no memory of writing my comment. I was probably drunk. But pistachio sounds good. Amanitas are in season in Sweden right now so I might to foraging. Probably better I go look for some liberty caps through

[@kevanhubbard9673]

I think that the Death Cap and Destroying Angel are about equal in toxicity which is to say extremely....sort of the Black Mamba of toadstools!

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

Yes I think that’s right, but death caps get mistaken more as they look a bit like a couple of edible but not worth risking mushrooms

[@АннаЛаврикова-р7ю]

​@@UKWILDCRAFTSyou mean, for example, like the russula of greenish shades? I wonder if it's edible

[@donbrashsux]

I think maybe these are the ones the lady in Australia cooked up n killed 3 people

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

Yes it was these 👍

[@graemedevine9651]

Thanks Lewis im sure there'll be a few novice foragers will have a munch at some thinking they're edible.

[@shaynmajor243]

❤

[@j7ndominica051]

I wouldn't pick up any mushrooms with a "leaf" spore dispersal system. Even when edible, they require long pre-treatment of boiling or salting. They also look repulsive like an insect's nest. Bolete mushrooms are rarer, but they can be easily identified by the "sponge" underside, and can be eaten right away lightly fried.

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

Not sure what you mean by leaf spore dispersal, do you mean gills? If so a lot of the edible mushrooms don’t require any boiling or salting. Also a lot of bolete mushrooms aren’t rare, very common in fact. And not all boletes are edible.

[@j7ndominica051]

Yes ,"gills". I missed this year's mushrooms, and went out looking in October. Many red fly killers were still around, but few edibles. Butter sticky bun has this veil and ring that is characteristic of poisonous mushrooms, but is fine to eat (if not eaten by slugs already). I only know some boletes that are bitter, but not very dangerous.

[@noctilucent7396]

These are growing in Texas...

[@adespade119]

Around 3% of the population have Gilbert's syndrome, this is a reduced ability to handle toxins due to reduced liver enzyme(s), it's possible they may be particularly susceptible to amanita. I have Gilbert's and wouldn't consider even touching these, I'd probably be OK, but why take the risk with something so deadly. Beautiful to look at though.

[@utkua]

Their name in Turkish is not "death cap" but "village wipe-out-er / destroyer". Funny name, but makes it clear how dangerous it is, even threat to entire communities.

[@davidprice7162]

Guessing this video is getting a surprising amount of views 2 years after the fact. Anyone else searching for the comment from an “Erin P” from a few weeks ago asking “cool info, but how many would you need to kill your in-laws?…asking for a friend”

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

I only filmed this a few months ago

[@cbrown5299]

It literally says 2 months ago lol

[@davidprice7162]

@UKWILDCRAFTS I got.my years and months mixed up My Lysdexia strikes again.

[@YukiTheOkami]

I was looning for this to explain it to an english speaking friend of mine We just hsve 2 cases here in germany strangely 2 familys thst dont know each orher as we know at least and the poisoned people are a fsther and 3 children but as i said its from 2 fsmilys the mothers strangly where not poisoned wich is suspicious couse either everyone is poisoned or the gstherer who tests the shroom or if from one fsmily tve mothef wasnt poisoned it might be due to avoiding nushrooms but 2 definetly needs to be investigstet but pokice is pretry lame ass they wont

[@ogkushstain2861]

Everything else will make you sick af but this one is responsible for most of our deaths.

[@dialmformowgli]

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[@Melodie_Info3]

I cook those they were deliciious im still fine :) I make mushroom steak andd macorini cheese with those deathcap.

[@billynomates920]

how to identify them.... they're death caps!

[@thaido3220]

Why risking your life or friend life eating food that is potentially dangerous like Fugu (Japanese poisonous blow- fish) or wild mushrooms? It does not make sense. Only buy authorized mushrooms that you can find in supermarkets. Never buy mushrooms from farmer’s markets or pick mushrooms that look edible in the woods or forest or even in your garden. Not worth it.

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

That’s a very simplistic way at looking at it. I learn about mushrooms and only forage a certain species when I’m 100% sure of its identification and know about any potential lookalikes that are poisonous. It’s only taking a risk if you try a mushroom without being sure. And myself or any responsible mushroom forager would never do that. Also the ‘authorised mushrooms’ you can buy in supermarkets are of poor quality. But if that’s the attitude you want to take it’s fine with me. More for us foragers :)

[@oddy1989]

I eat this everyday to become stronger, microdose

[@oddy1989]

@Bull184 To Norway?

[@souradeepmusib]

Another simple identification process is. If there are insects in the mushroom those are edible .

[@UKWILDCRAFTS]

Hi sorry but that’s incorrect. Insects and other creatures have completely different metabolisms to us, so process chemicals differently. What’s poisonous to us may not be poisonous to them. I often see bugs eating mushrooms that are poisonous to us. There are no shortcuts like this that are safe to use, you need to identify each mushroom species individually :)

[@dzonnyblue3065]

I want to Eat This !