False Death Cap

Amanita citrina

Forests, sometimes forest edges, clear-cuts, sparse stands, brighter places. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies large. Cap 8-10 cm across and larger, flattened, pale yellowish-greenish, yellowish, sometimes even whitish, covered with irregular whitish remnants of the veil. Gills white, later yellowish, broad, crowded, free. Stem 8-12x1-2 cm, thickening towards the base, the end bulbously thickened, sheathed in an adnate rough volva of which only the upper edge is free; the stem surface white, yellowish, with a drooping ring. Flesh white, soft, smelling of rotten potatoes, with an unpleasant taste. Characteristic features: cap, gills and stem yellowish, with an unpleasant smell of rotten potatoes. Grows singly or in groups. Poisonous. Very common. Fairly often the white variety of the false death cap (Amnita citrina var. alba (Gilb.) Gilb.) is found – photo in the right-hand corner. Poisonous.