Amanita fulva    (Schäff.:Fr.) Fr. 

common name(s) : Tawny Grisette 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Amanitaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Agaricales/Amanitaceae [sub-genus:Amanitopsis section:Amanitopsis ]  

synonyms: Amanitopsis vaginata-fulva, Amanita vaginata-fulva, Amanitopsis fulva 

edibility : edible if well cooked

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photo gallery of  Amanita fulva potential confusions with  Amanita fulva toxicity of Amanita fulva genus Amanita  

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.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 7 cm (between 3 and 12 cm)
  height of stem approximately 11 cm (between 5 and 18 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 11 mm (between 5 and 20 mm)

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 .
here should be the distribution map of Amanita fulva in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Amanita fulva in the forest of Rambouillet



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