Amanita porphyria    Alb. & Schw.:Fr. 

common name(s) : Grey Veiled Amanita, Brown-capped Amanita 

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

edibility : discard

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

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.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 6 cm (between 2.5 and 9 cm)
  height of stem approximately 10 cm (between 5 and 13 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 12 mm (between 6 and 20 mm)

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



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