Amanita subnudipes
🔎 Identification Guide
🌍 Found in: Italy 🇮🇹
🌳 Habitat: Dry oak forests, often on sun-exposed, south-facing hillsides
📅 Season: Early June – Early September
⚠️ Edibility: Toxic when raw, delicately flavored when cooked (but rare mushrooms should be protected!)
🧢 Cap: 1.18 to 3.15 inches (3 to 8 cm) wide, initially conical, becoming convex. A striking pale orange to saffron-yellow, slightly darker at the center. Matte with a striated margin.
🌿 Gills: Free, subcrowded, white, turning slightly creamy with age. Short gills are rare.
📏 Stem: Slender, white to very pale, fragile, hollow, and without a ring. Cylindrical, sometimes faintly ridged, with fine, delicate floccosities that smooth out over time.
🥚 Volva: A tall, persistent, white, sac-like sheath. The inner side has a unique pastel-orange or cream tint – a key distinguishing feature!
🥩 Flesh: White, tender in the cap, fibrous in the stem, with no distinct odor or taste.
⚪ Spore Print: White. Spores are subglobose to broadly ellipsoid, inamyloid (don’t react with iodine).
📜 Synonyms
Amanita crocea var. subnudipes Romagn., Bull. trimest. Soc. mycol. Fr. 98(98): 166 (1982) (Basionyme)
Amanitopsis crocea var. subnudipes (Romagn.) Wasser, Flora Gribov Ukrainy, Bazidiomitsety. Amanital'nye Griby (Kiev): 152 (1992)
Photo sources:
Photo 1 - Author: Davide Puddu (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Photo 2 - Author: Tatiana Bulyonkova (CC BY 4.0)
Photo 3 - Author: Lucian Clanet (CC BY 4.0)
