18/Sep/24, 3:19 PM
Raudoja, Harjumaa, Estonia
Coniferous (spruce-pine) forest, on mossy forest floor
59°22'44.2"N 25°29'09.9"E
🔆 Occasional sun with mild overcast, semi-shade spot
Original Instagram postAmanita excelsa
european false blusher
- Scientific identification
- Amanita excelsa (Fr.) Bertill.
- Family
- Amanitaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Amanita
Names across languages
- English: european false blusher
- German: Grauer Wulstling
- Finnish: Savukärpässieni
- Estonian: Hall kärbseseen
- Russian: Мухомор высокий
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2024-09-18.
Hymenium
Gills white to creamy-white, crowded, broad, with shorter lamellulae
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
Hymenium Attachment
Adnexed to nearly free
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
Spore print white
Ecology
Mycorrhizal with hardwoods and conifers; alone, scattered or gregariously; in deciduous, coniferous and mixed forests and woodland edges; summer to autumn
Edibility
Edible after thorough cooking but not recommended; toxic raw and easily confused
Uses & compounds
Thermolabile hemolysins present in raw fruit bodies
Fruit body
Fruit body medium to large; stipe ~8–15 cm long and ~1.5–3 cm thick
Dimensions
Cap ∅ ~6–15 cm
Flesh
White, firm, usually unchanging when cut; occasionally faintly pinkish or reddish toward the stipe base
Chemical reactions
Negative
Odour
Faint radish-like to slightly unpleasant, sometimes indistinct
Taste
Mild to slightly sweetish
Microscopy
Spores broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, amyloid, ~8–11 × 6–8.5 µm; basidia predominantly 4-spored; clamp connections absent at basidia
Overview
Grey-brown woodland Amanita with grey veil patches and a distinctly striate ring
1866). In Dechambre, Dict. Encyclop. Sci. Médic. (Paris) 1(3): 499.
Field encounters
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