Identifying Your Amanita
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CANADIAN LITTLE RINGLESS AMANITA
AMANITA LIVIDELLA
Frequency
Rare
Habitat
This small and rare amanita is associated with white birch trees growing in open areas.
Cap
Pinkish to grayish in color, to brownish gray, paler near the margin.
Margin
Lined from a young age.
Gills
Pinkish in color, paler with age, powdery at edge.
Stalk
Stipe thinned up, emerging from a membranous volva.
Stalk Feature
Stipe with the same colour as the gills at the apex. Upper part of the volva concolorous with the cap at maturity.
Flesh
White to dew.
Chemical reactions
Strong brown reaction with phenol on flesh, cap and stipe. Towards beige with FeSO4 on the stipe. No reaction with other chemicals.
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The specimen photographed in 2015 under birch trees in a small urban park was affected by desiccation. Five years later, this amanita reappear in 2020 exactly in the same place giving three fruitbodies. In 2015, this amanita fructified in early summer, on June 19; in 2020, we photographed it on September 14 and 15.
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