How to distinguish pale toadstool

Green fly agaric or death cap considered one of the most poisonous gifts of the forest. Even experienced mushroom pickers can confuse it with edible russula. To protect yourself and your family from poisoning with a pale toadstool, it is advisable to carefully study its appearance, photo and detailed description.

Amanita green: description

The body of the mushroom consists of a cap and a leg. The cap is in the shape of a hemisphere or a flat grayish, pale green or olive color with a darker and slightly convex center. The edges of it are smooth, with multiple membranes visible on the inside, the flesh and caps, and the legs are white. In diameter, the hat can reach 15 cm, in young specimens it is often covered with a film.

A thin cylinder-shaped foot at the base has a thickening resembling a potty, tightly wrapping it, its color is the same as that of the top. A filmy skirt ring frames the leg closer to the top. The mushroom has no smell, it is noteworthy that even spores are poisonous to it.

The habitat of the fungus is a pale grebe - sunlit glades of mixed and deciduous forests, it grows both in groups and singly. The young mushroom is very similar to champignon, and more adult to green russula.

Similar types: how to distinguish toadstool?

To distinguish the snag from edible mushrooms does not hurt to study the photo of the toadstool and a mushroom similar to it. People focus only on the skirt around the legs, but quite often it is either mild or damaged as in the photo below. You can distinguish a young mushroom from champignon by the following features:

• champignon does not have a thickening on the stem at the base;
• the color of the mushroom cap, unlike the toadstool, is pink, sometimes purple.

What the russula looks like unlike a toadstool:

• lack of russula in the thickening of the base of the leg;
• the head of the adult russula is slightly concave in the center.

In almost all edible mushrooms, the inside of the cap is colored pink, brownish, or even red, in toadstool it is snow-white.The legs of edible mushrooms are always strong and even, and in snares they are often thin and crooked. However, due to poor ecology, such clear signs are not always present.

The first signs of poisoning and help

The bad thing is that the poisoning can not be disturbed immediately, manifesting itself in 6-12 hours - this greatly complicates the treatment. Typical symptoms of poisoning:

• sudden nausea and vomiting, which is difficult to relieve;
• diarrhea, with stool may be with blood and mucus;
• cutting and stitching pains in the stomach;
• intense thirst, feeling of dry mucous membranes;
• weakness, headache;
• total apathy or intense excitement;
• blurred vision and clouding of consciousness.

If there is a suspicion of mushroom poisoning, you must immediately call the ambulance. Before the arrival of specialists perform the following actions:

1. Clear the stomach (drink a pale pink solution of manganese or warm salt water, induce vomiting, pressing on the base of the tongue with your fingers).
2. Drink a lot to make up for water loss.
3. Take a laxative and sorbents.

In conclusion, I would like to say: a pale grebe, despite its harmless appearance in the photo, according to mortality statistics among the population, is ahead of the cases of poisonous insect and snake bites. Do not pick mushrooms if you are not sure about their edibility and safety.