Tawny Grisette

Amanita fulva

Coniferous and deciduous forests, also boggy places. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies large. Cap 5-10 cm across, sometimes larger, surface smooth, rarely with remnants of the yellow veil, slimy, shiny, pale yellowish-brown, orange-brown, margins grooved. Gills white, later yellowish, free. Stem 7-16x0.5-1.5 cm, white, without a ring, at the base with a loose whitish, brownish volva. Flesh white, soft, without a particular smell or taste. Characteristic features: stem without a ring, white, long, gradually thickening towards the base. Grows singly or in small groups, quite often in boggy pine forests, among sphagnum mosses. Edible, but collecting is not recommended, because it can be confused with the poisonous Common Amanita (paprastoji musmirė). Common.