Identifying Your Amanita
3.1
JACKSON'S AMANITA
AMANITA JACKSONii
Frequency
Infrequent
Habitat
It is mainly found in summer and early autumn in young oak groves. Also under hardwoods and pine trees.
Fruit body
The red color of the cap is an infallible characteristic.
Cap
Bright red then reddish orange, without velar remains..There is a white variety and a brown variety.
Margin
Longly lined.
Gills
Crowdy, pale yellow to orange-yellow.
Stalk
Slender, mottled of orange-yellow fibrils on a yellow background.
Stalk Feature
Partial orange-yellow veil. The stipe emerges from a large, fleshy, flared white volva.
Flesh
White to pale yellowish.
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In 1978, we photographed this amanita in Aiguebelle park. In the early 2000s, we encountered the brown variety even further north, in the heart of the boreal forest, in the canton of Ligneris in Abitibi, Qc.
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