Amanita crenulata

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Amanita crenulata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Amanitaceae
Genus: Amanita
Species:
A. crenulata
Binomial name
Amanita crenulata
Peck (1900a)
Amanita crenulata
mycorrhizal
Edibility is poisonous or psychoactive

Amanita crenulata, also known as the poison champagne amanita,

Northeast
United States.

Description

  • Cap: 2 – 9 cm wide, hemispheric at first, then becoming flatter. Pale tan, sometimes grayish or yellowish. The volva is distributed over the wide cap as powdery, somewhat paler warts. The color of the warts lends the mushroom the name "champagne."
  • Gills: narrowly adnate, close to subcrowded, and white to cream. The short gills are truncate to subtruncate or (occasionally) subattenuate.[2]
  • Stipe: The stipe is 17 - 100 × 3.5 - 16 mm and has a skirt-like annulus that is often quickly lost or left in torn fragments on the pileus margin. The notable bulb usually bears a distinct ring of champagne volval powder on its "shoulder."[2]
  • Odour: Not distinct.

It is an ectomycorrhizal fungus, living in root symbiosis with a tree.

Biochemistry

Amanita crenulata when ingested can produce symptoms associated with ibotenic acid/muscimol toxicity.[3][4]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Standardized Common Names for Wild Species in Canada". National General Status Working Group. 2020.
  2. ^ a b Amanita crenulata at amanitaceae.org Accessed Sep 2019
  3. ^ Amanita crenulata a common poisonous misunderstood mushroom p.1
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