Amanita vaginata (Bull.) Lam.
Grisette

vaginata from vagina, a sheath

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Description:
mushroom
Fruiting Body: cap 3-8 cm; stalk central 8-22 cm long x 1-2 cm diameter, enlarged at base. Spore Print Color: white. Spores: basidiospores 8-12 µm, globose, smooth, hyaline, not blue in Melzer's.

Diagnostic macroscopic feature: no annulus

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common

Nutritional Mode: ectomycorrhizal

Substrate: on ground

Habitat: woodlands

Fruiting Season: summer

  
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Order: Agaricales
 

 

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