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Amanita rubescens or blushing amanita fungi, semi-edible mushroom wild grows in the forest, natural seasonal background, close-up

A wild mushroom nestled amongst the forest floor leaves in the Loire Valley of France.

$Amanita pantherina (DC. ex Fr.) Secr. Panthercap Amanite panthère, Pantherpilz, Párducgaloca. Cap 6–10cm across, ochraceous brown, covered with small pure-white warty fragments of the veil, finely striate at the margin. Stem 90–130´10–15mm, white with tattered, pendulous ring which is not striate or grooved, the stem base is bulbous and closely wrapped in the white volva which forms a distinct free rim around the base and one or two belt-like rings just above. Flesh white, becoming hollow in the stem. Taste and smell mild. Gills free, crowded white. Spore print white. Spores broadly ovate, nonamyloid, 8–12 x 6.7–7.5µ. Habitat in coniferous or deciduous woodland especially beech. Season summer to autumn. Uncommon. Poisonous – may be deadly. Distribution, America and Europe (source R. Phillips).\n\nThis is not a quite common species in Forests in the Netherlands.$