Identifying Your Amanita
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VARIEGATED AMANITA
AMANITA VARIICOLOR
Frequency
Infrequent
Habitat
Especially in fir-birch forests.
Cap
Bare or adorned with gray or orange gray veil remnants, olive yellow to brownish olive, to black-brown, sometimes darker in the center.
Margin
Lined.
Gills
White, greyish to salmon coloured.
Stalk
Equal to enlarged downward, adorned with gray-brown to orange fibrils, less visible when young.
Stalk Feature
The stipe adorn in the lower part a gray velar strip which turns orange when ripe; volva stained with rust at the base.
Flesh
Whitish.
Chemical reactions
KOH and NaOH: no reaction on the flesh, towards beige on the cap and the stipe.
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