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Peach-Colored Fly Agaric

Amanita persicina

Photo by flowntheloop
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Field Notes

Description:

Very pale blush to peach colored mushroom with edges are that beginning to split with age. Gray to white veil remnants are present on its upper surface. Gills are cream to white and crowded. Its stipe is blush to cream with hints of yellow. A large, distinctly sac-like volva transitions into stipe fairly smoothly; it was partially peeking above the ground when I found this specimen. Despite its fairly short stature, this mushroom was heavy!!

Amanita persicina was once grouped in as a variety of Amanita muscaria, but DNA evidence shows A. persicina and A. muscaria as distinct species.

Habitat:

Growing in soil/leaf litter near pines in a public park.

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