Amanita

Description:

Toxic, hallucinogen. The hat is semi-globular and bright red when young, when aging is convex-flattened and red-orange, with white cottony scales in pyramidal form, very delicate to the touch. After the rain, the fructiferación presents a yellowish color since it is discolored. The lamellae are white and free giving a white spore. It has a cylindrical, scaly stipe under the ring and smooth on it. The ring is large, broad and persistent, white with a border of yellowish scales. The base of the stipe is bulbous, with a white fleeting volva presenting concentric scaly protrusions at its bottom. This is a firm textured mushroom with very delicate scales and ring, fungal odor, faint. It tastes like nuts.

Habitat:

The fungus is usually found in very broad habitat conditions, from the lower regions, to the middle and high mountain areas, the latter being the most probable circumstances. Although it lives in all kinds of forests, it is more frequent to find it in the ones of beech, black pines, firs and birches. It grows associated with the roots of these, with which it exchanges mineral salts and water with other organic substances, being able to form relatively large groups. It develops between late summer and autumn, within the mycological season. It is a mycorrhizal species that develops in soils under conifers like Pinus radiata, also grows associated with birch (Betula pendula).