Amanita porphyria Alb. & Schw.:Fr. |
The cap is grey brown to violet; its margin is smooth. The cap surface is with rare violet-green, irregularly arranged veil tatters, not viscid nor sticky. The stem is white to pale grey-brown, often with grey-violet streaks, bulbous, with a white circumcised volva, and a membranous striate ring. The flesh is unchanging; its taste is mild, of radish or unpleasant; the odour is strong, of raw potato; 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 coniferous woods, on a rather acid soil, most of the time with fir, also with pine, spruce. The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Distinctive features : purple-brown cap; circumcised volva; grows isolated; spores coloured in blue-grey by iodine; fragile white then blackish-grey ring Amanita porphyria is occasional and widely present in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking . | ||
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