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The fly agaric fungus (Amanita muscaria): three fruiting bodies. Watercolour by R. Baker.

A fungus (Clitocybe phyllophila) growing on soil. Watercolour, 1898.

The fly agaric fungus (Amanita muscaria): two fruiting bodies. Watercolour, 1890.

The sickener fungus (Russula emetica): four fruiting bodies. Watercolour.

A group of dung roundhead fungi (Stropharia semiglobata). Watercolour.

The sickener fungus (Russula emetica): four fruiting bodies. Watercolour, 1895.

A doctor examining an obese man and his wife and servant for suspected food poisoning from toadstools. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1813.

The fly agaric fungus (Amanita muscaria): three fruiting bodies. Watercolour, 1893.

Panther cap fungus (Amanita pantherina): four fruiting bodies, one sectioned. Watercolour, 1898.

Poisonous fungi: 24 species, including Agaricus, Hypophyllum and Amanita species. Coloured lithograph by A. Cornillon, c. 1827, after Prieur.

A fungus (Stropharia aeruginosa): four fruiting bodies, one sectioned. Watercolour, 1905.

Fungi: twenty species, including the fly agaric (Amanita muscaria), death cap (Amanita phalloides) and Boletus and Agaricus species. Coloured lithograph by A. Cornillon, c. 1827, after Prieur.

Devil's bolete fungus (Boletus satanus). Watercolour by R. Baker, 1896.

A fungus (Stropharia aeruginosa): five fruiting bodies. Watercolour, 1883.

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Toxigenic fungi

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Images about Toxigenic fungi

Works from the collections

Devil's bolete fungus (Boletus satanus). Watercolour by R. Baker, 1896.

The sickener fungus (Russula emetica): four fruiting bodies. Watercolour, 1895.

A doctor examining an obese man and his wife and servant for suspected food poisoning from toadstools. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1813.

A fungus (Stropharia aeruginosa): five fruiting bodies. Watercolour, 1883.

The sickener fungus (Russula emetica): four fruiting bodies. Watercolour.

Toxigenic fungi

Images from the collections

Images about Toxigenic fungi

Works from the collections

Devil's bolete fungus (Boletus satanus). Watercolour by R. Baker, 1896.

The sickener fungus (Russula emetica): four fruiting bodies. Watercolour, 1895.

A doctor examining an obese man and his wife and servant for suspected food poisoning from toadstools. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1813.

A fungus (Stropharia aeruginosa): five fruiting bodies. Watercolour, 1883.

The sickener fungus (Russula emetica): four fruiting bodies. Watercolour.

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