Identifying Your Amanita
3.2
CITRON AMANITA
AMANITA CITRINA
Frequency
Frequent
Habitat
Under hardwoods and conifers.
Fruit body
The color of the cap and the large bulb marginated at the base of his stipe allow him to be identified with certainty.
Cap
Greenish yellow to pale yellow, bare or adorned with whitish to brownish gray velar flakes.
Margin
Even, non lined (sometimes shortly lined at maturity).
Gills
Whitish, sometimes pale yellow, crowdy with many short gills.
Stalk
White to yellowish.
Stalk Feature
Stipe largely bulbous-marginated.
Flesh
Whitish.
Chemical reactions
Discoloration of the cap under the effect of KOH and NaOH. Color change of cap and stipe due to FeSO4. No effect on the flesh.
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This amanita is characterized by its greenish yellow cap (more intense in color at a young age) and by its large bulb with an angular edged. There is a white variety described in 5.8 and a greyish cap variety described in 7.3. It fructifies throughout the summer and fall.
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