Amanita Revisited
Grafton 7/23/07

A group of 5.  The largest cap was about 4".

Note the ring is a about the middle of the stalk.

Top

Edge cracked due dry weather.

Gills very crowded.  Looks like a "notch" before attaching to the stem.

Looks like the gills "run up" the stem for a while.

Stalk with ring.

The spore print was white.  Spores elliptical, measured 10.5 X 6.7 microns.
George Riner, who has much more experience, thinks it is not Amanita porphyria but has no idea what it might be.  Noah S. found one like this and he too could not come up with an identification.
On 12/22/10 Dave W. thought it might be Amanita spreta.  Rod T. replied:
"I agree with Dave. The color is very intense in this set of specimens. The annulus on the stem did not become gray with age (two characters that I associate with Amanita spreta); however, there is no other name for a relatively robust species of section Caesareae with short marginal striations, a relatively small volval sac, and cap color in the gray-brown to white range that grows in the eastern U.S."