East Asian yellow death cap
Amanita subjunquillea · 黄盖鹅膏
Rarely Seen鹅膏科☠️ Deadly Poisonous
Reference sources describe this as highly toxic, with recorded fatalities.
The same species can be described differently across regions and stages of maturity, and countless look-alike species cannot be told apart by eye. Never use the information on this page to judge whether a real mushroom is safe to eat.
How to Tell
- Cap yellow to yellowish brown, darker at the center
- Stem white, base with a white sac-like volva
- Ring white and membranous, gills white; found in pine and hardwood forests
ID notes are compiled by AI from public sources, not reviewed by a mycologist, for learning only — never a basis for foraging.
Basics
- Family
- 鹅膏科
- Hymenium
- Gills
- Grows On
- Mycorrhizal
- How Big
- 4–9 cm (cap diameter)
- Encounter Rate
- Rarely Seen
- Habitat
- Mixed conifer-broadleaf forests of East Asia
Easily Confused With
Half-dyed slender caesarHalf-dyed slender caesar has an orange-red cap with a striate margin and yellow gills; East Asian yellow death cap has white gills, no striations.
Caesar's mushroomCaesar's mushroom has yellow gills and stem; East Asian yellow death cap has white gills.Fun Fact
It contains amatoxins and is a major cause of death in East Asia; its yellow-brown cap is easily mistaken for the edible Caesar's mushroom or egg mushroom.
More in this family
- American Caesar
- Death cap
- Destroying angel
- East Asian death cap
- False death cap
- Fly agaric
- Grisette
- Panther cap
- Smith's amanita
- The blusher