Amanita porphyria
Systematics:- Department: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
- Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
- Family: Amanitaceae (Amanitaceae)
- Genus: Amanita (Amanita)
- Species: Amanita porphyria (Amanita porphyry)
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Amanita muscaria or Amanita porphyria ( lat.Amanita porphyria ) is a mushroom of the genus Amanita (lat.Amanita) of the Amanitovy family (lat.Amanitaceae).
Amanita porphyry grows in coniferous, especially pine forests. Occurs in single specimens from July to October.
Hat up to 8 cm in ∅, first convex , then open , greyish brown,
brown-gray with a bluish-violet tinge, with or without filmy bedspread flakes.
The pulp is white , with a pungent unpleasant odor.
The plates are loose or poorly adherent, frequent, thin, white. Spore powder is white. The spores are rounded.
Leg up to 10 cm long, 1 cm ∅, hollow, sometimes swollen at the base, with a white or gray ring, white with a grayish tinge. The vagina is adherent, with free edges, at first white, then darkening.
The mushroom is poisonous , has an unpleasant taste and smell, and therefore is inedible.