Amanita porphyria (Amanita porphyria)

Systematics:
  • Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
  • Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
  • Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
  • Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
  • Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
  • Family: Amanitaceae (Amanitaceae)
  • Genus: Amanita (Amanita)
  • Type: Amanita porphyria (Amanita porphyria)

Amanita porphyria (Amanita porphyria) photo and descriptionFly agaric gray or Amanita porphyry (lat. Amanita porphyria) is a mushroom of the genus Amanita (lat. Amanita) of the family Amanitaceae (lat. Amanitaceae).

Amanita porphyry grows in coniferous, especially pine forests. Occurs in single specimens from July to October.

Hat up to 8 cm in ∅, first, then, grayish-brown,

brown-gray with a bluish-violet tint, with filmy flakes of bedspread or without them.

Pulp, with a sharp unpleasant odor.

The plates are free or slightly adherent, frequent, thin, white. Spore powder is white. Spores are rounded.

Leg up to 10 cm long, 1 cm ∅, hollow, sometimes swollen at the base, with a white or gray ring, white with a grayish tint. The vagina is adherent, with free edges, first white, then darkening.

Mushroom poisonous, has an unpleasant taste and smell, therefore it is inedible.

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