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Welcome to Mushroom World, your resource for mushroom information. On this site you can search for mushrooms in our database and read about them. You can use this information to identify fungus, but do not eat mushrooms you are not 100% certain of. Use many resources, and be skeptical of your own conclusions. It takes normally years of experience to be able to identify mushrooms reliably. The responsibility for the identification is yours; the site takes no responsibility for damage caused by wrong identifications. Please read the disclaimer.
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Help identifying a mushroom
If you know how a mushroom looks, but need help to identify it, try our Mushroom identification helper. You can browse mushroom pictures there and perhaps find a match.
If this site cannot help you, we recommend mushroomobserver.org, which is a community site for mushroom identifications.
Today's Mushroom
Today's mushroom is Amanita pantherina (Panther Amanita). The mushroom is Poisonous. It grows in North America, Europe, Western Asia.
Description: Amanita pantherina, also known as the panther cap or panther amanita, is a medium to large fleshy agaric with brownish cap, pure white patches, white stem, ring, bulbous base with distinct margin.
Cap shiny brown or grey-brown with a very finely striate margin, initially domed, later flatten, with densely distributed warts that are pure white to sordid cream, minutely verruculose and easily removable. Gills free, close to crowded, white becoming greyish, truncate. Stem subcyclindric, somewhat narrowing upward, white, becoming slightly tannish in age, stuffed then hollow, finely floccose becoming smooth above the white ring that is initially quite chunky but often becomes thin and floppy in more mature specimens, sometimes with a toothed edge.
Amanita pantherina on the First Nature Web site.
Amanita pantherina on the MushroomExpert.Com Web site.
Dimensions: Cap 5-10 cm diameter, stem 8-12 cm tall * 1-1.5 cm diameter
If you are interested in this mushroom, look it up in our database. You can find more detailed pictures there.
