American Caesar's Mushroom

A useful thing about that link is that all those pictures were also taken in Georgia, so there's no doubt that they're in your geographical range.

I think the suggestion of A. caesarea is correct. Your picture is of a not completely mature mushroom. The American Caesar's Mushroom might not actually be A. caesarea and there's a lot of related species that may or may not be "true" caesarea. This link has some nice photos of American varieties which closely resemble the one you photographed: http://morelmushroomhunting.com/amanita_caesarea_group.htm

Definitely an amanita - I'm leaning toward fulva, or amerifulva. Take a look at the following links. http://www.eticomm.net/~ret/amanita/species/sinicofl.html http://www.amanitaceae.org/?Amanita+amerifulva http://www.pamushrooms.org/amanitaceae.php (scroll down to amerifulva and look at the first pic and assume yours has more color than normal - Amanitas vary widely within the same species) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_fulva http://www.mushroomexpert.com/amanita_fulva.html http://www.eticomm.net/~ret/amanita/species/fulva.html

fungi are amazingly difficult. I have Aurora's big book of mushroom's. I'll check the amanitas when I get home. There are a few without the "spots" which are just remnants of the "egg"

Family amanita from the "egg" remains around the stem, but I've never seen one before