Amanita phalloides



Cortinarius husseyiKey to Gilled Mushrooms     Key
This is a key to gilled mushrooms, that is, mushrooms having a definite cap with a fertile surface consisting of gills. The fruiting body usually also has a stem, although that may be lateral or absent (usually, then, the mushroom is growing from wood). You can use this key to identify mushrooms that you find.



TricholomaAgaricales     Order
Fruiting body containing fibers (usually in the stalk)



Amanita caesareaAmanita     Genus
Fruiting body having a combination of some of the following characteristics:
Stalk growing out of a cup of cottony tissue called a volva (all white-spored mushrooms with a volva go here)
Cap with scattered patches or flakes of the same sort of tissue as the volva (see second picture), easily peeled off
Annulus (skirt-like ring on stalk)



Amanita bisporigeraPhalloideae     Section
Annulus always present
Either volva present, sack-like and cap either white or olive brown, or
Stalk with a basal bulb and cap either greyish brown or yellow


Amanita bisporigeraSaccate Phalloideae     SubSection
Volva sack-like


Amanita phalloides     Link: Fries

Here are the characters that distinguish this species from the others in its group. For its more general characters, see higher up on the page.
If there's just a few words or a microscopic feature here, a more thorough description can be found above.


Amanita phalloides

Diagnosis


Microscropic Characters


Comments

This mushroom has been described as having several types of odors, among them "sickeningly sweet", "unpleasant", and "becoming foul"
This is the Amanita that kills the most people in Europe. So far, it has only been found on the East and West coasts of this country. If you find it in the Mid-West, give us a holler! (and dry the mushroom and send it to us)


 

 


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