White amanita (Amanita verna)
- 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 verna (Amanita verna)
Fly agaric white grows in moist coniferous and mixed forests in June-August. All mushrooms are white.
Hat 3,5-10 cm in ∅, first, then, in
in the middle or with a tubercle, with a slightly ribbed edge, silky when dry.
The pulp is white, with an unpleasant taste and smell.
The plates are frequent, free, white or slightly pinkish. Spore powder is white.
Spores ellipsoid, smooth.
Leg 7-12 cm long, 0,7-2,5 cm ∅, hollow, cylindrical, tuberous swollen at the base, fibrous, with flaky scales. Volvo free, cup-shaped, puts on the tuberous base of the leg 3-4 cm in height. The ring is wide, silky, slightly striped.
The mushroom is deadly poisonous.
The similarity: with an edible white float, from which it differs by the presence of a ring and an unpleasant odor. It differs from the edible white umbrella in the presence of a volva, a less hard stem (hard-fibrous in umbrellas) and an unpleasant odor. It differs from the beautiful edible volvariella by the presence of a ring, a pure white hat (in volvariella it is grayish and sticky) and an unpleasant odor