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Amanita persicina
Rich peach to blush colored mushroom with pale orange veil remnants on pileus. Gills are cream to white and crowded. Stipe white and covered in veil remnants. A large, distinctly sac-like volva transitions into stipe fairly smoothly. Younger specimens still have white veils in tact. Older specimens have a skirt-like annulus. Amanita persicina was once grouped in as a variety of Amanita muscaria, but DNA evidence shows A. persicina and A. muscaria as two distinct species.
Growing in a grassy field in a public park in Northwest Georgia (Floyd County), US.
Spotted on Nov 6, 2017
Submitted on Nov 10, 2017
2 Comments
Thank you! These were photos from a few days ago; I'm still cropping photos from yesterday (near the same location). The variability in cap color/texture is really interesting in this species.
Perfection <3!