Thanks for the “fix” and the explanation.

Rod

To fix the name, you just had to click on the “Approve” link at the top, in the line with the “Edit name” links.

You’re right, no orange or brown tones there at all – that’s what made me doubt that it’s the standard A. crocea in the beginning – the palette is within pale yellow and pale pink limits. The picture was taken after lunch but it was overcast, so the colors are a bit pale yet there aren’t really any “parasitic” red hues – these were actually pinker and darker than those in #34102.

I’d really appreciate any specific hints on microscoping my way to their ID (currently studying basic Amanita microscopy guidelines at The Site ;))

For some reason the correct spelling and correct author citation for Amanita flavescens is treated by the MO system as a deprecated name. A name with plentiful typos in the author citation is said to be the correct name. This needs to be fixed.

Well, Auto Contrast was a simple thing to try. It both brightened the picture and removed some red. (Was the picture taken early or late in the day?) The result is that I can see that the standing specimen has a pale stipe with neither orange brown decoration nor an orangish background to the white surface material. The cap lost some of it red (less orange). As a result, the material looks very much like the A. flavescens that I saw fresh in Norway. The inside of the volval sac is concolorous with the cap, and that suggests to me that some of the pileipellis remains attached to the inner surface of the volva (this is characteristic of taxa in the A. crocea group, including A. flavescens). If you get a chance to check similar material with a scope in the coming year, I can give you some clues about distinguishing the known taxa in the crocea group.

Very best,

Rod

Tatiana,

I think this is close to Amanita crocea or Amanita flavescens. I’m going to see if I can brighten the image a little with photoshop…to see if I can get any clues. How does the cap color compare to rather freshly fallen birch leaves? In Norway, some of the newly fallen birch leaves were very close to the cap color of A. flavescens.

Rod