Death cap
Death cap noun - Extremely poisonous usually white fungus with a prominent cup-shaped base; differs from edible Agaricus only in its white gills.
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The Fair Folk: The 'sighe,' a sprite-like, hypnotic creature whose name—Armaneeta—is just one phoneme away from Amanita, the genus of mushroom that includes the death cap.
- The Death Cap, Amanita phalloides, which contains the same deadly poison as the Destroying Angel, and is said to have caused more deaths than any other mushroom species.
Source: Names To Run Away From / Nouns - Foreshadowing: Merricat lists the death cap mushroom as one of the things she likes in the page quote, and has a habit of describing poisonous plants as an Implied Death Threat whenever Charles is eating something.
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