Species details
Tawny grisette
Amanita fulva
Conditional / expert preparation
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Description
An orange to reddish-brown grisette with a striate cap margin, no ring, and a white sack-like volva.
Identification features
The stem is slender and often brownish-fibrous; cap patches are rare or absent.
Identification checklist
Check the entire fruitbody for identification. An orange to reddish-brown grisette with a striate cap margin, no ring, and a white sack-like volva. The stem is slender and often brownish-fibrous; cap patches are rare or absent. Typical habitat: Moist acidic woodland, often with birch, spruce, and pine, and at bog margins.
Detailed features
- Cap
- 7–11 cm, yellow-brown to reddish-brown, darker at the centre, initially conical-bell-shaped, later expanded; margin strongly striate.
- Hymenophore
- Gills white, crowded, broad, and free from the stem.
- Stem
- 8–11 × 0.5–1.5 cm, white to slightly brownish, often curved, without a ring; base enclosed by a brownish sac-like volva.
- Flesh
- White and very brittle.
- Smell
- Indistinct.
- Spore print
- White.
Size
- Cap diameter
- 7–11 cm
- Stem height
- 8–11 cm
- Stem diameter
- 0,5–1,5 cm
Habitat
Moist acidic woodland, often with birch, spruce, and pine, and at bog margins.
Fruiting period
June, July, August, September, October
Ecology
- Trophic mode
- Mycorrhizal
- Host trees
- Birch (Betula), Beech (Fagus), Oak (Quercus)
- Substrate
- Forest soil
- Notes
- An ectomycorrhizal species, especially common with birch, but also occurring with beech and oak.
How to separate similar species
Compare especially with these similar species: Amanita vaginata, Amanita crocea, Amanita phalloides. Check the combination of cap shape and colour, spore-bearing surface, stem, flesh changes and habitat. A single feature or photograph is not enough; if the key characters do not match the description, do not treat the identification as confirmed.
Similar species
- Death cap (Amanita phalloides) DANGEROUS
The deadly death cap has a ring; the tawny grisette does not.
- Grisette (Amanita vaginata)
The grisette is predominantly grey, whereas this species is yellow- to reddish-brown.