This exhibit uses materials from the Farlow Library, Archives, and Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany to illustrate the varied representations of Amanita phalloides in literature, illustration, and specimens, dating from 1727 through the present.
ARKive. Death Cap (Amanita phalloides).
Bay Area Mycological Society. Amanita phalloides: Invasion of the Death Cap.
Encyclopedia of Life (EOL). Amanita phalloides (Death Cap).
Harvard Magazine. Don’t Eat Amanitas. A bad-news mushroom.
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