Wednesday July 14, 1999 - Question 5

Which of the following statements about mushroom identification is true?

A. Mushroom samples should be placed in plastic wrap and frozen to slow degradation.
 
B. The Meixner test may be used to detect the presence of amatoxins.

C. A spore print is not necessary if the color of the mushroom’s gills is evident.

D. Spores are present on all mushroom specimens.

E. If an intact specimen is not available, an absolute accurate identification of a suspect mushroom is impossible.
 

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