20/Aug/23, 5:07 PM
Raudoja, Harju County
Under bushes near bird nest fungi, mixed forest (birch, pine)
59°22'36.8"N 25°29'16.5"E (59.376881, 25.487922)
🔆 Overcast, deeply shady place
Original Instagram postAmanita muscaria var. formosa
Yellow Orange Fly Agaric
- Scientific identification
- Amanita muscaria var. formosa Pers.
- Family
- Amanitaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Amanita
Names across languages
- English: Yellow Orange Fly Agaric
- German: Gelb Fliegenpilz
- Estonian: Kollane kärbseseen
- Russian: Мухомор желтый
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2023-08-20.
Hymenium
Gills white to creamy-white, crowded, with numerous shorter lamellulae
Cap
Hemispherical to convex when young, later broadly convex to flat; yellow, golden-yellow to orange-yellow or tawny-orange, sometimes darker centrally; covered with yellowish to whitish universal-veil warts that may wash away; margin increasingly striate at maturity
Hymenium Attachment
Free
Stipe
White to faintly yellowish, cylindrical to clavate, tapering upward; basal bulb surrounded by concentric rings or scales of yellowish volval remnants; large membranous, pendulous pale ring
Spore print
Spore print white
Ecology
Mycorrhizal with hardwoods and conifers, especially beech, birch, spruce and pine; alone, scattered or gregariously; deciduous, coniferous and mixed forests; often acidic to siliceous soils; summer to autumn
Edibility
Poisonous and psychoactive; causes variable neurological intoxication and gastrointestinal symptoms
Uses & compounds
Historically used in folk and ethnomycological practices
Uses & compounds
Ibotenic acid, muscimol, muscarine
Fruit body
Fruit body medium to large; stipe ~8–20 cm long and ~1–2.5 cm thick
Dimensions
Cap ∅ ~6–20 cm
Flesh
White, sometimes yellowish immediately beneath the cap skin; unchanging when cut or bruised
Chemical reactions
No distinctive macroscopic KOH reaction
Odour
Mild, indistinct, mushroomy
Taste
Mild, indistinct
Microscopy
Spores broadly ellipsoid to subglobose, smooth, hyaline, inamyloid, ~8–10.5 × 6–8 µm; basidia predominantly 4-spored; gill trama bilateral
Overview
Yellow to orange-yellow fly agaric with pale veil warts, pendulous ring and concentric volval rings around a bulbous base
Pers. In: Observ. mycol. (Lipsiae) 2: 37 ('1799'). (1800).
Field encounters
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