The mushrooms














    
discover our mushroom apps

Amanita onusta.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

Amanita  onusta Mushroom
Ref No: 6686
Buy this image
location: North America
edibility: Poisonous/Suspect
fungus colour: White to cream, Grey to beige
normal size: 5-15cm
cap type: Convex to shield shaped
stem type: Ring on stem, Volva on stem, Bulbous base of stem, Stem much longer than cap diameter
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

Amanita onusta (Howe) Sace. Cap 2.5-10.5cm across, convex to flatter or concave with a low, broad umbo and veil remnants hanging from the margin; whitish to pale gray; slightly sticky when moist, otherwise dry with dark brownish-gray warts of volval material which become woolly on the margin. Gills free to just adnexed, close; whitish to creamy yellow. Stem 35-155x6-15mm, solid, tapering slightly toward the top; gray or brownish gray toward the base, paler toward the top; finely hairy to woolly; a delicate, whitish to creamy-gray ring that usually falls away; deeply or sinuously radicating, slender basal bulb has brownish-gray warts and downward-curving scales of volval material on it and the lower stem. Flesh whitish to pale gray. Odor often of chloride of lime. Spores broadly ellipsoid, amyloid, 9-12 x 5.2-7µ. Deposit white. Habitat singly or in groups on the ground in mixed coniferous and deciduous forests. Locally quite common. Found in eastern north. America. Season August-September. Possibly poisonous -avoid.

Members' images and comments

Click here to upload and share your photos and comments about this mushroom (JPEG only please).
By uploading images and text you hereby warrant that you are the legal owner of this material and agree, without limitation, to permit Rogers Plants Ltd to publish such images and text on this Rogers Plants website. Rogers Plants Ltd reserves the right to remove any member images or text at its sole discretion.
© 2001-2013 Rogers Plants Ltd. All rights reserved. The text and photographs on this site may not be reproduced in any form without the written permission of Rogers Plants Ltd. Please see our Terms and Conditions. Site by Glide Technologies Ltd. Poisoning Disclaimer.
Don't forget to visit our sister sites RogersRoses and RogersTreesandShrubs.