Panther Cap

Description:

Amanita pantherina is an impressive species with a brownish or yellowish brown cap that is covered with white warts. Though the "true" Amanita pantherina is probably a strictly European species, several North American versions are commonly found. I have opted to treat the whitish Amanita multisquamosa and the yellow Amanita velatipes (see the right-hand column) as distinct, leaving the brownish versions to go under the name "Amanita pantherina" while we wait for North American names to be published. If this sort of "lumping" bothers you, see Rod Tulloss's keys to northeastern and Pacific Northwest amanitas, where you will find various pantherina cluster taxa separated, primarily on microscopic features. http://www.mushroomexpert.com/amanita_pa...

Habitat:

under pine