Grey Veiled Amanita

Amanita porphyria

Coniferous forests, favours mossy places. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies medium-sized. Cap 5-9 cm across, greyish-violet, greyish-brown, with a smooth surface, shiny. Gills white, crowded. Stem 5–10x0.5–1.5 cm, grey, greyish-brown, with a delicate falling-off ring, bulbously thickened at the base, with a white, greyish-brownish-violet adnate volva. Flesh thin, soft, with an unpleasant smell of rotten potatoes. Characteristic features: fruiting bodies do not resemble amanitas, smaller than those of other amanitas, the cap cuticle elastic, tough, peeling easily. Grows singly, sometimes several fruiting bodies together. Mildly poisonous. Common.