Identifying Your Amanita
5.8
WHITE FALSE DEATH CAP
AMANITA. CITRINA var. ALBA
Frequency
Infrequent
Habitat
Under hardwoods and conifers.
Fruit body
White fruiting bodies which could lead to believe of a deadly amanita until we see the bulb at the base of the stipe.
Cap
White, often greyish in the center, bare or adorned with white velar flakes.
Margin
Non-lined margin or slightly lined at maturity,
Gills
White.
Stalk
White, fibrillous, widening downward.
Stalk Feature
Partial white veil.
Base largely bulbous, marginated and sometimes split.
Flesh
White.
Chemical reactions
No effect of chemicals on flesh, cap or stipe.
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The cap color of the Citron Amanita varies widely, ranging from greenish (a color that fades with age) or dark gray to white in the white variety. This is why it is described in three different places: 3.2 for specimens with greenish caps, 5.8 for the white variety and 7.3 for specimens with gray to brownish gray caps.
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