Amanita for a grocery cap

Fly agaric and Button mushroom — take this sheet to the bed, not a guess to the kettle.

Fly agaricAmanita muscaria

Button mushroomAgaricus bisporus

Deadly mix-upForage

A white or orange cap in grass is not Agaricus. Fly agaric and its deadly cousins still get eaten by people who trusted a photograph.

Amanita often keeps a volva at the base, a ring, and white gills that do not bruise brown. Button mushrooms (Agaricus) have pink-then-brown gills and a grocery smell. Never eat a wild cap on an app’s word — especially not a mushroom.

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The Herbarium — a teaching catalog, not a clinic. Traditional use is history, not a prescription. USDA 6b dates are a week either way, not a promise. Do not eat, drink, or harvest a plant you cannot name.