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Amanita pantherina var. pantherina
Cap: 4 – 11 cm wide, hemispheric at first, then convex to plano-convex, deep brown to hazel-brown to pale ochraceous brown, densely distributed warts that are pure white to sordid cream, minutely verruculose, floccose, easily removable. Viscid when wet, with a short striate margin. The flesh is white, unchanging when injured. Gills: free, close to crowded, white becoming greyish, truncate. Spores: white in deposit, broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid to elongate, infrequently globose. 8 — 12 × 5.5 — 8 µm. Stipe: 5 – 14 cm long × .6 – 2 cm wide, subcyclindric, somewhat narrowing upward, white, becoming slightly tannish in age, stuffed then hollow, finely floccose becoming smooth above the ring, and with small appressed squamules or creamy floccose material below. The volva is white, becoming grey with age, forming one or sometimes two narrow hoop-like rings just above the bulbous base. The flesh is white, unchanging when injured. Odour: Unpleasant or like raw potatoes Microscopic features: Spores are 8-14 x 6-10 µm, smooth, elliptical and inamyloid.[1] Other than the brownish cap with white warts, distinguishing features of Amanita pantherina include the collar-like roll of volval tissue at the top of the basal bulb, and the elliptical, inamyloid spores.
Amanita pantherina var. pantherina, also known as the panther cap and false blusher due to its similarity to the true blusher (Amanita rubescens), is a species of Europe and western Asia.
Spotted in the S.Joâo Hospital gardens,a place where i never imagined that could sustein such a amazing variety of fungis and trees,beautiful in this season
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Thanks Vlad and Ratumourakalipase for the tip id's
Could also be A. Pantherina but the first thing that crossed my mind was A. Regalis because of the dark brown coloring. In my part of the world A. Pantherina has a more lighter shade of brown. I think the difference can be seen on the stem. If the ring on the stem has lines on it it's A. Excelsa. If the stem has, on the bulb, 2 to 4 small rings it's A. Regalis. If it doesn't have any of these characteristics it's A. Pantherina.
Maybe Amanita pantherina as well?
Please see Amanita excelsa var. spissa and Amanita regalis, it's one of these two.