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Amanita eliae.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

Amanita eliae.jpg Mushroom
Ref No: 9769
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location: Europe
edibility: Poisonous/Suspect
fungus colour: White to cream, Grey to beige
normal size: 5-15cm
cap type: Convex to shield shaped
stem type: Ring on stem, Volva on stem, Stem much longer than cap diameter
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

Amanita eliae Quélet. Cap 4–8cm across, covered in veil remnants when just emerging from the volva later with white patches, the background colour is light yellowish beige . The stem is rather long 100- 120 x 10mm, white, bulbous, the volval is white and soon breaks up; the ring is white or slightly coloured like the cap, delicate, soon breaking up. Flesh white. Taste and smell slight. Gills free, white. Spore print white. Spores elliptical, amyloid, (9)11–14 x 6.5–8.5m. Habitat deciduous woodland especially oak, on acid soils. Season summer to autumn. Rare. Not edible, easily confused with other deadly species. Distribution Europe.

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