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Fly Agaric - Amanita muscaria
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Panther - Amanita pantherina
| Panther - Amanita pantherina |
| Edibility: |
Hallucinogenic |
| Habitat: |
On the ground under conifers, particularly Douglas-fir. |
| Range: |
Rocky Mountains to West Coast; rare in East. |
| Season: |
June; September-October; NovemberFebruary in California. |
| Spore Color: |
white |
| Mushroom Shape: |
Veiled Mushrooms with Free Gills |
| Lookalikes: |
A. rubescens* lacks rimmed bulb, bruises reddish. A. spissa* has cap with grayish patches and no radial lines. A. gemmata* typically lacks well-defined margin on bulb; there are intermediate forms between this and A. pantherina. The poisonous A. cothurnata* is smaller, with a more slender stalk and whitish cap. A. velatipes is taller, more robust, with vellowish cap that is bownish at center. |
| Description: |
Brownish cap with white patches; margin has fine radial lines; stalk has ring and basal bulb with free or rolled margin. or rows of cottony scales.
Cap: 1-6" (2.5-15 cm) wide; round, becoming convex to flat or slightly sunken; margin has fine radial lines; tacky when wet, smooth; usually blackish-, sooty-, or yellowish-brown near margin, sometimes nearly white overall; with whitish, cottony patches. Gills: free or slightly attached, crowded, broad to narrow, whitish. Stalk: 2-7" (5-17.5 cm) long, %8-1" (1-2.5 cm) thick, sometimes enlarged downward toward roundish basal bulb; fibrous, cottony, or scaly, whitish. Veils: universal veil white; leaving patches on cap, and bandlike margin at tip of stalk bulb, typically rolled into stalk, but occasionally free; sometimes with concentric bands on lower stalk. Partial veil membranous, whitish; leaving persistent, pendant ring on upper or midstalk.
Spores: 8-14 X 6.3-10 u; broadly elliptical, smooth, colorless, nonamyloid. Spore print white. |
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| Date: |
17.09.2003 01:02 |
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