Poisonous gray-brown cap mushroom

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In Vietnam, there are about 50-100 different species of poisonous mushrooms. Mushroom poisoning occurs less frequently than other types of poisoning, but the mortality rate is very high. Gray-brown cap mushroom is one of the common poisonous mushrooms in Vietnam, the following article helps readers to be wary to avoid picking the wrong, eating the wrong poisonous gray-brown cap mushroom.

1. Signs to identify poisonous mushrooms

Mushrooms are full: mushroom plate, cap, stalk, ring stalk and base coat are usually poisonous mushrooms. The inside of the mushroom stem is light pink, the mushroom cap is red with white scales, the mycelium glows at night, it is poisonous, The toxic site is in the entire mushroom body (cap, plate, ring, stalk, base cover of the mushroom). ), toxins change with the season, the growth process of fungi, soil environment, climate

2. Identification characteristics of poisonous brown gray cap mushroom

Gray-brown cap mushroom, also known as poisonous mushroom containing muscarin (Inocybe fastigiata or Inocybe rimosa) with the following characteristics:
Gray-brown cap mushroom usually grows in aboveground forests, where there are many rotting leaves and a some other places... The gray-brown cap is conical or bell-shaped, pointed at the apex, with yellow to brown filaments radiating from the top of the cap to the edge of the cap. In old age, the edge of the mushroom cap is split into separate rays; Mushroom caps are from 2 to 8cm in diameter. The slate is grayish-brown when young, whitishly attached to the stem, and when mature, it is gray or brown and separates from the stem. Mushroom stalk: Color from slightly white to yellow-brown, 3-9cm long, legs are not bulbous, no stalk ring. Mushroom flesh: white The gray-brown cap mushroom has the main toxin: muscarin The muscarin in brown mushrooms acts on the parasympathetic nervous system, causing symptoms such as sweating, shortness of breath, stridor, slow pulse , coma, convulsions. Symptoms of brown mushroom poisoning appear early (15 minutes - several hours), patients can recover after 1-2 days, rarely die.

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