Identifying Your Amanita
7.2
PURPLE-BROWN AMANITA
AMANITA PORPHYRIA
Frequency
Frequent
Habitat
Under conifers.
Fruit body
Robust fruitbodies with a dark cap and a partial gray veil.
Cap
Dark brown, sometimes lighter in color, often adorned with gray velar flakes.
Margin
Even, sometimes short-lined at maturity.
Gills
Whitish to greyish.
Stalk
Whitish stipe often mottled with gray-brown fibrils, widened downwards.
Stalk Feature
Partial gray veil, a characteristic of the species.
Stipe broadly bulbous marginated, rarely split.
Flesh
White, brown in the bites of insects.
Chemical reactions
No effect with chemical reagents, except phenol which gives a purplish color to the flesh, the cap and the stipe.
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