10/Sep/23, 3:40 PM
Raudoja, Harju County
Mixed forest, within birches and pines, in decaying leaves
59°22'45.6"N 25°28'53.6"E
🔆 Mild overcast, semi-shaded spot
Original Instagram postAmanita pantherina
panther cap
- Scientific identification
- Amanita pantherina (DC.) Krombh.
- Family
- Amanitaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Amanita
Names across languages
- English: panther cap
- German: Pantherpilz
- Finnish: Pantterikärpässieni
- Estonian: Panter-kärbseseen
- Russian: Мухомор пантерный
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2023-09-10.
Hymenium
Gills white to creamy-white, crowded, broad, with numerous shorter lamellulae
Cap
Hemispherical to convex when young, later broadly convex to flat; ochre-brown, hazel-brown to dark brown; covered with numerous pure white to cream universal-veil warts that may wash away; margin distinctly striate at maturity
Hymenium Attachment
Free to narrowly adnexed
Stipe
White, cylindrical and tapering upward; base distinctly bulbous, with an adherent volva forming a characteristic collar or gutter-like rim and often one or more concentric rings above; membranous, pendulous white ring, usually smooth on its upper surface
Spore print
Spore print white
Ecology
Mycorrhizal mainly with hardwoods; alone, scattered or gregariously; deciduous, mixed forests and woodland edges; summer to autumn
Edibility
Poisonous and psychoactive; severe neurological intoxication with agitation, confusion, hallucinations, ataxia, CNS depression and gastrointestinal symptoms
Uses & compounds
Ibotenic acid, muscimol, muscazone, muscarine
Fruit body
Fruit body medium to large; stipe ~5–15 cm long and ~0.6–3 cm thick
Dimensions
Cap ∅ ~5–15(–18) cm
Flesh
White, firm, unchanging when cut or bruised; does not redden
Chemical reactions
10% KOH yellow-orange on cap flesh
Odour
Mild to indistinct, sometimes slightly radish-like or raw-potato-like when bruised
Taste
Mild, indistinct
Microscopy
Spores broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, inamyloid, ~8–12 × 6–8 µm; basidia predominantly 4-spored; clamp connections absent at basidial bases
Overview
Brown woodland Amanita with pure white veil warts, striate cap margin, smooth ring and characteristic gutter-like volval collar around a bulbous base
1846). Naturgetr. Abbild. Beschr. Schwämme (Prague): 29.
Field encounters
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