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Golden threads lepidella

Amanita canescens

A species of Amanita mushrooms

Golden threads lepidella can grow among both pine trees and hardwoods (especially oaks). It produces a broad white cap that may reach as large as 17 cm across. Golden threads lepidella gives off only a faint scent that is variously reported as similar to cedar trees or burnt sugar.

Cap Diameter:

10 - 17 cm

Odor:

Odor is faintly fungoid or faintly of cedar wood or burnt sugar, not unpleasant

General Info About Golden threads lepidella

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Attributes of Golden threads lepidella

Cap Diameter

10 - 17 cm

Cap

Cap 10 - 17 cm across; plano-convex; grayish brown to white; margin nonstriate, appendiculate, decurved throughout expansion

Gills

Adnexed to free; close to crowded; cream, white; not changing when bruised or cut

Stem

Stem 90-140 × 24-25 mm; flaring at apex; whitish; universal veil distributed on upper bulb or not apparent

Flesh

Firm

Spore Print Color

White

Odor

Odor is faintly fungoid or faintly of cedar wood or burnt sugar, not unpleasant

Body Color

Brown

Yellow

Bronze

Gray

White

Orange

Pink

Cream

Flesh Bruises

The flesh or milk does not discolor when bruised or cut.

Nutrient Gathering

Mycorrhizal

Substrate

On soil

You can find Golden threads lepidella by these plants:

Oaks, Firs, Pines

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Habitat of Golden threads lepidella

Edge of a dense mixed forest

Scientific Classification of Golden threads lepidella

Phylum

Club fungi

Class

Mushroom-forming fungi

Order

Gilled fungi

Family

Amanita

Genus

Amanita mushrooms

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