🇺🇸 european false blusher - 🇩🇪 Grauer Wulstling - 🇪🇪 Hall kärbseseen - 🇷🇺 Мухомор высокий 9/3/11—9/6/25
🆔 Amanita excelsa (Fr.) Bertill.
ℹ️ Hymenium: Gills white to creamy-white, crowded, broad, with shorter lamellulae
ℹ️ Cap: Hemispherical to convex when young, later broadly convex to almost flat; grey-brown, olive-brown to dark brown; usually covered with irregular whitish-grey to grey universal-veil patches or warts; margin generally non-striate
ℹ️ Hymenium Attachment: Adnexed to nearly free
ℹ️ Stipe: White to greyish, robust, cylindrical and tapering upward from a swollen base; smooth or striate above the ring and finely scaly below; ring broad, membranous, persistent and distinctly striate above; volva fragmented and inconspicuous, without a distinct gutter-like rim
⚪ Spore print white
🌲🌳 Mycorrhizal with hardwoods and conifers; alone, scattered or gregariously; in deciduous, coniferous and mixed forests and woodland edges; summer to autumn
⚠️ Edible after thorough cooking but not recommended; toxic raw and easily confused
⚕️ Thermolabile hemolysins present in raw fruit bodies
📏 Fruit body medium to large; stipe ~8–15 cm long and ~1.5–3 cm thick
📐 Cap ∅ ~6–15 cm
🔪 White, firm, usually unchanging when cut; occasionally faintly pinkish or reddish toward the stipe base
🧪 Negative
👃 Faint radish-like to slightly unpleasant, sometimes indistinct
👅 Mild to slightly sweetish
🔬 Spores broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, amyloid, ~8–11 × 6–8.5 µm; basidia predominantly 4-spored; clamp connections absent at basidia
🔤 Grey-brown woodland Amanita with grey veil patches and a distinctly striate ring
🇺🇸 european false blusher - 🇩🇪 Grauer Wulstling - 🇪🇪 Hall kärbseseen - 🇷🇺 Мухомор высокий