Amanita rubescens

This is a key to gilled mushrooms, that is, mushrooms having a definite cap with a fertile surface consisting of gills. The fruiting body usually also has a stem, although that may be lateral or absent (usually, then, the mushroom is growing from wood). You can use this key to identify mushrooms that you find.

Fruiting body containing fibers (usually in the stalk)

Fruiting body having a combination of some of the following characteristics:
Stalk growing out of a cup of cottony tissue called a volva (all white-spored mushrooms with a volva go here)
Cap with scattered patches or flakes of the same sort of tissue as the volva (see second picture), easily peeled off
Annulus (skirt-like ring on stalk)

Annulus present
Volva absent
Usually, the base of the stem has a little knob, but is smooth and otherwise unremarkable
Entire cap (not just the margin) often becoming wavy in age

Amanita rubescens     (Persoon: Fries) S. F. Gray

Here are the characters that distinguish this species from the others in its group. For its more general characters, see higher up on the page.
If there's just a few words or a microscopic feature here, a more thorough description can be found above.

Diagnosis

• Cap up to 8" across; yellowish brown, with darker brown or reddish areas, fading in age
  
• Flesh slowly staining pink to reddish brown in age or when bruised

Microscropic Characters

• Spores 7.5-9.5 x 6-7 µm

 

 

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