13/Sep/24, 2:36 PM
Väike-Rõsna, Võrumaa, Estonia
Pine woodland edge, on ground with moss and pine litter
57°58'48.3"N 27°37'25.1"E
🔆 Bright sun, open spot
Original Instagram postAmanita citrina
false deathcap
- Scientific identification
- Amanita citrina Pers.
- Family
- Amanitaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Amanita
Names across languages
- English: false deathcap
- German: Gelber Knollenblätterpilz
- Finnish: Keltakärpässieni
- Estonian: Kollane kärbseseen
- Russian: Мухомор поганковидный
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2024-09-13.
Hymenium
Gills white to faintly cream or citrine-tinged, crowded, with numerous shorter lamellulae
Cap
Hemispherical to convex when young, later broadly convex to almost flat; pale lemon-yellow, citrine, straw-yellow to nearly white; usually carrying irregular whitish to ochraceous universal-veil patches or warts; margin generally non-striate
Hymenium Attachment
Free
Stipe
White to pale yellowish, cylindrical and tapering upward; prominent abruptly marginate basal bulb surrounded by an adherent circumscissile volva forming a gutter-like rim; large persistent, pendulous pale ring
Spore print
Spore print white
Ecology
Mycorrhizal with hardwoods or conifers; alone, scattered, or gregariously; in forests and woodland edges; neutral to alkaline soils; summer and autumn
Edibility
Inedible, potential confusion with toxic species and mild toxicity
Uses & compounds
Alpha-amanitin toxin, bufotenin toxin
Fruit body
Fruit body medium to large; stipe ~5–8(–13) cm long and ~0.6–2.5 cm thick
Dimensions
Cap ∅ ~5–10(–12) cm
Flesh
White, sometimes faintly citrine immediately beneath the cap surface; fairly firm and unchanging when cut
Chemical reactions
No strong yellow macroreaction
Odour
Distinctive raw-potato, turnip or radish-like
Taste
Slightly sweetish
Microscopy
Spores globose to broadly ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, amyloid, approximately ~6.5–10 × 6–9 µm; basidia predominantly 4-spored; lamellar trama bilateral
Overview
Pale lemon-yellow woodland Amanita
1797). Tent. Disp. Meth. Fung. (Lipsiae): 66.
Field encounters
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