Fungal mushroom on redwood forest floor, Trillium Falls Trail, Redwood National Park, California, USA
I'm told that this is not an Amanita gemmata
Cap: about 4” wide. Color ‐ center of cap is brownish tan changing to hints of light‐yellow to white
around margins. Striate (marked with delicate lines) around the margins.
Stipe: about 6” tall and nearly 1” wide. Presence of volva with “collar‐like, concentric rings of scales or
warts”, tissue easily crumbles and is being peeled back slightly by gravity, “floccose (cottony, woolly, or
downy, like tufted cotton) scales”. Has partial veil (annulus – skirt‐like ring around stipe).
Growing from same exact location of pipery bolete, in spruce-fir forest
Fungal mushroom on redwood forest floor, Trillium Falls Trail, Redwood National Park, California, USA
I'm told that this is not an Amanita gemmata
Cap: about 4” wide. Color ‐ center of cap is brownish tan changing to hints of light‐yellow to white
around margins. Striate (marked with delicate lines) around the margins.
Stipe: about 6” tall and nearly 1” wide. Presence of volva with “collar‐like, concentric rings of scales or
warts”, tissue easily crumbles and is being peeled back slightly by gravity, “floccose (cottony, woolly, or
downy, like tufted cotton) scales”. Has partial veil (annulus – skirt‐like ring around stipe).
Growing from same exact location of pipery bolete, in spruce-fir forest