Fly agaric (Amanita gemmata)
Systematics:
- Department: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
- Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
- Family: Amanitaceae (Amanitaceae)
- Genus: Amanita (Amanita)
- Species: Amanita gemmata (Amanita bright yellow)
or
Fly agaric straw yellow
Amanita muscaria (lat.Amanita gemmata) is a mushroom of the Amanitaceae family.
The season is late spring – autumn.
The hat is smooth, ocher-yellow, dry, 4-10 cm in ∅. In young mushrooms it is convex, in ripe ones it becomes flat. The edges of the cap are grooved.
The pulp is white or yellowish, with a faint radish odor. The plates are loose, frequent, soft, pale at first; older mushrooms may have light buffy.
The stem is elongated, fragile, whitish or yellowish in color, 6-10 cm in height, 0.5-1.5 cm with a ring; as the mushroom matures, the ring disappears. The surface of the leg is smooth, sometimes pubescent. Remains of bedspreads: the ring is filmy, quickly disappears, leaving an indistinct mark on the leg; Volvo is short, inconspicuous, in the form of narrow rings on the swelling of the leg; on the skin of the cap there are usually white flaky plates. Spore white powder, spores 10 × 7.5 μm, broadly elliptical.
Shows varying degrees of toxicity depending on the place of growth. The symptoms of poisoning are similar to the panther fly agaric.
