Funeral bell
Galerina marginata
Deadly poisonous. Even a small piece can kill: never pick it to eat.
This is a game, not a field guide. Never eat a wild mushroom or plant because of it; if you are unsure, ask a mushroom advisor or a poison centre.
At a glance
- Scientific name
- Galerina marginata
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Order
- Agaricales
- Family
- Hymenogastraceae
- Under the cap
- Gills
- Cap
- Domed, Flat
- Stem
- Ring
- Lives by
- Breaking down dead matter
- Season
- Spring, Summer, Autumn
- Habitat
- Dead wood
- Spore print
- Brown
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Hard
Did you know?
- It contains amatoxins, the same deadly poisons found in the death cap.
- Its genus Galerina holds several hundred small brown species that even experts struggle to tell apart.
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Similar fungi
- Death cap
Amanita phalloides
- Velvet shank
Flammulina velutipes
- Field mushroom
Agaricus campestris
Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q248829 · All fungi · All entries