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Amanita pantherina
North American versions have brown caps that are covered with white warts, as well as a collar-like roll of veil tissue at the top of the stem's basal bulb, and ellipsoid, inamyloid spores. The western North American version is associated primarily with conifers, and has a variable cap that ranges from dark brown to pale tan or nearly yellowish (creating confusion with Amanita gemmata).
Mycorrhizal with conifers--especially pines like bishop pine and Monterey pine, but also with Douglas-fir, spruces, and (occasionally) with hardwoods; growing alone, scattered, or gregariously; fall and winter; along the West Coast from California to the Pacific Northwest, and reported from the southwestern Rocky Mountains.
Spotted on Sep 28, 2014
Submitted on Oct 1, 2014
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