Royal fly agaric (Amanita regalis)
- 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 regalis (Royal fly agaric)
Description:
The hat is 5-10 (25) cm in diameter, at first spherical, with an edge pressed to the stem, all covered with white or yellowish warts, then convex-prostrate and prostrate, sometimes with a raised ribbed edge, with numerous (rarely in small numbers) whitish mi or yellowish warty flakes (remains of a common veil), on a yellow-ocher, ocher-brown to mid-brown background.
The plates are frequent, wide, free, white, later yellowish.
Spore powder is white.
Leg 7-12 (20) cm long and 1-2 (3,5) cm in diameter, at first tuberous, later – slender, cylindrical, expanded to a nodule base, covered with a whitish felt coating, under it brownish-ocher, sometimes with scales below , solid inside, later – hollow. The ring is thin, drooping, smooth or slightly striped, often torn, white with a yellowish or brownish edge. Volvo – adherent, warty, from two to three yellowish rings.
The pulp is fleshy, brittle, white, without a special smell.
Spread:
Amanita muscaria is common from mid-July to late autumn, until November, in coniferous spruce forests and mixed (with spruce), on the soil, singly and in small groups, rare, more common in more northern and western regions
