Amanita fulva (Schäff.:Fr.) Fr. |
The cap is orange-brown, orange-red; its margin is striate. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky. The stem is cream then more or less reddish-brown, smooth without orange silky tufts, tapering towards top, hollow with age, with a white sheathing volva, tinted with tawny brown or orange, without ring. The flesh is unchanging; its taste is mild; the odour is not distinctive; its texture is fibrous. The gills are white, free, crowded . The spore print is white. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved (sometimes coniferous) woods, on a rather acid soil, with birch, pine, but also with beech, chestnut, oak. The fruiting period takes place from June to November.
Chemical tests : none. Distinctive features : Orange-brown cap, with darker centre, smooth surface, clearly striate margin and often with an umbo; Smooth white stem, washed with the cap's colour, without ring but with a encasing bag-like white and red-brown tinted volva Amanita fulva is frequent and very widely present in the forest of Rambouillet, and is frequent, more generally speaking . | ||
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