Float yellow-brown (Amanita fulva) photo and description

Float yellow-brown (Amanita fulva)

Systematics:
  • Department: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
  • Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
  • Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
  • Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
  • Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
  • Family: Amanitaceae (Amanitaceae)
  • Genus: Amanita (Amanita)
  • Subgenus: Amanitopsis (Float)
  • Species: Amanita fulva (Yellow-brown float)

Other names:

  • Amanita orange

  • Fly agaric yellow-brown

  • The float is brown

  • Float orange

Float yellow-brown (Amanita fulva)

The mushroom belongs to the genus of amanita, belongs to the large family of Amish.

It grows everywhere: North America, Europe, Asia, and even in some regions of North Africa. Grows in small groups, single specimens are also often found. Loves wetlands, acidic soils. Prefers conifers, rarely found in deciduous forests.

The height of the yellow-brown float is up to 12-14 cm. The cap in adult specimens is almost flat, in young mushrooms it is convex ovoid. It has a golden, orange, brown color, in the center there is a small dark spot. There are grooves at the edges; there may be a little mucus over the entire surface of the cap. The cap is usually smooth, but some fungi may have some remnants of the blanket on its surface.

The pulp of the mushroom is odorless, soft and fleshy.

The leg is white-brown in color, covered with scales, fragile. The lower part is denser and thicker, the upper one is thin. A volva on a mushroom stalk with a leathery structure, does not attach to the stalk. There is no ring on the leg (a specific feature of this mushroom and its main difference from poisonous fly agaric).

Amanita fulva grows from July to late October.

Belongs to the edible category (conditionally edible), but is used only boiled.