Amanita French gemmata.Synonyme: Amanita jonquil -
Amanita with precious stones.
Classification: Cl Basidiomycetes - 0. Agari-Holds - F Amanitacées.
How to recognize it?
The Amanita jonquil has the typical color of the spring flower
from which it borrows the name.
The cap: little charnu, of rather small size,
initially bellflower, is spread out quickly. Cuti-reaction-cule,
luisante, are generally decorated white plates which shine with
moisture, from where the name of Amanita with precious stones
that one gives him sometimes. Colouring can notably vary very
pale yellow with ochracé, even with the orange one. The
margin, mean, is clearly striated. Blades: almost free, white,
tint themselves slightly ochracé.
The foot: cylindrical, quickly hollow and fragile,
stretches itself starting from a bulb based globulous which is
decorated, in its higher part, of some scraps having the aspect
of a small flange. The ring, located in the median part, little
developed, is quickly fugacious. The surface of the foot, fibrillous
or a little fluffy, is white.
Flesh: tender and fragile, yellow under the
cuticule, is white everywhere else. It is not very odorous
Where and when to meet it?
From spring until the approaches of the winter, the Amanita
jonquil embellish the conifers underwood (especially of pines)
and leafy trees, (mainly of beeches). Irregularly distributed
according to the areas, it is common locally in siliceous ground
and is installed sometimes on the grounds limestones.
Toxicity
The edibility of the Amanita jonquil is discussed. A many people
having tasted it find a pleasant taste to him and appreciate it,
as it is the case in the south of France where it is consumed,
in all impunity it seems. It caused however some gastro-enteritises
and would be even mortal. With what to allot such an inconstancy?
We can think of a confusion with another species, but the question
remains whole. In the doubt, the mycophages will regard it as
poison.
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