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Grzybiarz is a mobile app for mushroom foragers. Its on-device AI helps you spot fruiting bodies in the leaf litter and suggests a species from a photo, and the app keeps a private map of your finds. Everything runs on your phone and works fully offline in the forest without signal.

European Destroying AngelAmanita virosa

deadly poisonous

European Destroying AngelAmanita virosa

Photo: (c) Thierry Arbault, some rights reserved (CC BY)

Habitat

mixed forests

under spruce

deciduous forests

under birches

Season

from July to October

Amanitaceae

4–12 cm

Season

Out of seasonOut of season. It usually grows from mid-July to mid-October.

Today · 22–28 Octout of season

how often reportedpeak

Season

Jul–Oct

Peak

Aug–Sep

Reports

115Poland and neighbours

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Parasol Mushroom grows at the same time

Both species grow together for about 15 wk a year. Most strongly from late August to late September.

Pieczarka polnaIn the forest together about 15 wk a year.

Pieczarka leśnaIn the forest together about 14 wk a year.

Pieczarniczka kremowaIn the forest together about 13 wk a year.

Gąska gołębiaIn the forest together about 12 wk a year.

Czernidłak kołpakowatyIn the forest together about 8 wk a year.

Wodnicha białaIn the forest together about 6 wk a year.

Curve from 115 observations (GBIF: Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Germany), smoothed week by week. It shows when foragers most often report the species, not how much of it grows.

Key features

Entirely white; cap conical at first, then expanded with a slight umbo, often asymmetric and tilted. Stem shaggy with white fibrils, with a flimsy, ragged ring and a saclike white volva; flesh white, smell unpleasant, sickly sweetish. KOH reaction on the cap is yellow, which is diagnostic.

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