maturity; the skin peeling with difficulty, usually only near the margin. gills: attached to the stem or running slightly down it; nearly distant; white when young but creamy with maturity. stem: - cm long; - cm thick; white, often with a flush of pink; dry; fairly smooth. flesh: white; unchanging when sliced...
enlarged toward the base; dry; bald or finely hairy; white, discoloring yellowish to orangish in age; with a high, thick, white ring that is finely grooved on its upper surface and radially split or "cogwheeled" on its underside; base with white mycelial threads . flesh: white; firm; unchanging when sliced...
the base; whitish to brownish above, but sometimes colored like the cap near the base; bald, becoming fibrillose; bruising pink to red when fresh; with a skirtlike, whitish ring ; usually featuring one to several brown to brownish ringlets near the base. flesh: white; quickly pink, then red when sliced...
"abrupt" is a perfect description of the basal bulb of amanita abrupta; it looks like an egg that has been sliced off and stuck on the end of the stem!...
bald or finely hairy; with a fragile whitish ring that often collapses or may disappear; without a prominently swollen base; with a whitish volva that usually has a free upper edge but may appear as "rings" near the base of the stem or as indistinct, appressed material. flesh: white; unchanging when sliced...
- cm long; up to cm thick; more or less equal; bald or powdery; whitish, often discoloring and bruising slightly brownish; with a cream-colored, skirt-like ring ; the base enclosed in a sack-like, white to yellowish volva that sometimes crumbles. flesh: white to faintly yellowish; unchanging when sliced...
typically has a pinched-off bottom and features an adherent white volva that folds over to form a collarlike rim on the upper edge of the bulb (occasionally also featuring a few loosely clinging concentric rings of volval material). flesh: white throughout; thin; hollowing in the stem; not changing when sliced...
with a large, skirtlike, fragile, whitish ring that usually disappears; terminating in a turnip-shaped basal bulb that often features a tapering "root" (up to cm or more long); with powdery, indistinct volval remnants ; stained bluish to greenish blue near the base. flesh: white; unchanging when sliced...
tapered slightly to the apex; adorned with a flimsy, yellowish, skirtlike ring that sometimes disappears; whitish; fairly bald; base slightly swollen, covered with yellow, mealy veil fragments that are easily shed and can be found surrounding the stem on the substrate. flesh: white; unchanging when sliced...
subtropical areas across the globe (especially australia, new zealand, and southern africa). the illustrated and described collections are from north carolina, south carolina, and georgia. immature fruiting body: like a whitish to brownish "egg" up to about cm high; attached to numerous rhizomorphs ; when sliced...