Amanita princeps

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| image = 2017-05-12 Amanita princeps Corner & Bas 737412.jpg

| image_caption = In Laos

| taxon = Amanita princeps

| authority = Corner & Bas (1962)

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Amanita princeps, the head man slender Caesar, is a species of agaric fungus in the genus Amanita.{{cite web |url=http://www.amanitaceae.org/?Amanita+princeps |title=Amanita princeps |last1=Tulloss |first1=R. E. |date=7 November 2021 |website=amanitaceae.org |publisher=Amanitaceae studies |access-date=8 November 2021 }} It is found in tropical China, Southeast Asia, and the Malay Peninsula down to Singapore. It is edible, and is collected in the wild and sold in local markets.{{cite journal |title=Proximate compositions and bioactive compounds of edible wild and cultivated mushrooms from Northeast Thailand |year=2016 |last1=Srikram |first1=Amporn |last2=Supapvanich |first2=Suriyan |journal=Agriculture and Natural Resources |volume=50 |issue=6 |pages=432–436 |doi=10.1016/j.anres.2016.08.001 |doi-access=free }} Many incidents of mushroom poisoning have occurred among Laotian and Hmong immigrants to North America, since it is easily confused with Amanita phalloides, the death cap, in both appearance and odor.{{cite news |last1=Childs |first1=Craig |title=Death-Cap Mushrooms are Spreading Across North America |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/02/deadly-mushroom-arrives-canada/581602/ |newspaper=The Atlantic |date=9 February 2019 |access-date=8 November 2021 }}