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Amanita pantherina var. multisquamosa.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

Amanita pantherina var multisquamos Mushroom
Ref No: 7024
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location: North America
edibility: Deadly
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
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

Amanita pantherina var. multisquamosa (Pk.) Jenkins Cap 3-1l cm across, convex becoming flat, occasionally with a depressed disc and a fairly distinctly lined margin; whitish with a tan-colored disc; sticky when moist, smooth, spotted with soft, white patches or warts of volva) remnants that are more woolly at the margin. Gills free, crowded, numerous; white. Stem 35-130 x 3-12mm, usually hollow, tapering slightly toward the top; whitish; surface with minute patches or hairy scales; basal bulb almost round, with a volva like a distinct collar with a free margin at the top of the bulb; a persistent, whitish, pendant ring is often flaring with a thickened edge. Flesh white. Spores subglobose to ellipsoid, nonamyloid, 8.7-10.5x6-8µ. Deposit white. Habitat growing on the ground in mixed coniferous and deciduous woods. Occasional. Found in eastern North America and possibly the Pacific Northwest. Season August. Poisonous possibly deadly.

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