A significant characteristic is that it blushes when bruised or cut, and is since also called the blusher. flavivolvata on the MushroomExpert.Com Web site.Īmanita rubescens, also know as Blushing Amanita, is a large, rosy-brown, fleshy agaric that has cap patches, white gills, a bulbous base, and a ring on the stem. The white spots sometimes wash away during heavy rain and the mushrooms then may appear to be these species.Īmanita muscaria on the First Nature Web site.Īmanita muscaria var. Similar species include Amanita caesarea and Amanita jacksonii. It can be quite wide and flaccid with age. Between the basal universal veil, remnants and gills are remnants of the partial veil (which covers the gills during development) in the form of a white ring. At the base is a bulb that bears universal veil remnants in the form of two to four distinct rings or ruffs. Stem white, robust, and has a slightly brittle, fibrous texture.
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Gills white, free or barely touching the stem, crowded. Surface shiny deep scarlet, fading to orange-red or orange-yellow in older specimens.
The mushroom is poisonous and a fatal dose has been calculated as 15 caps.Ĭap first round to hemispherical, and finally to plate-like and flat in mature specimens, often with a low, shallow depression on disk when fully expanded. It grows scattered or in groups on poor and sandy soils and the fruiting bodies emerge from the soil looking like white eggs. Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric or fly amanita, is a medium to large, fleshy agaric, with a red cap, white patches, white gills, a ring, and a bulbous base.