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Peach-Colored Fly Agaric

Amanita persicina

Photo by flowntheloop
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34.35, -85.08

Field Notes

Description:

Rich peach to blush colored mushroom with pale orange veil remnants on pileus. Gills are cream to white and crowded. Stipe white and covered in veil remnants. A large, distinctly sac-like volva transitions into stipe fairly smoothly. Younger specimens still have white veils in tact. Older specimens have a skirt-like annulus. Amanita persicina was once grouped in as a variety of Amanita muscaria, but DNA evidence shows A. persicina and A. muscaria as two distinct species.

Habitat:

Growing in a grassy field in a public park in Northwest Georgia (Floyd County), US.

Notes:

Reference Links:

Amanita muscaria var. persicina - Wikipedia, Amanita muscaria var. persicina (MushroomExpert.Com)

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Comments (2)
flowntheloop
Thank you! These were photos from a few days ago; I'm still cropping photos from yesterday (near the same location). The variability in cap color/texture is really interesting in this species.

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