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Ceaser's Mushroom

Amanita caesarea

Photo by JC_Forester
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Field Notes

Description:

It has a distinctive orange cap, yellow gills and stem. Organic acids have been isolated from this species. Similar orange-capped species occur in North America and India. It was known to and valued by the Ancient Romans, who called it Boletus, a name now applied to a very different type of fungus.

Habitat:

Mixed hardwood forest.

Notes:

Not recommended as edible because of similar poisonous species.

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Amanita caesarea

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