I'm in South Africa. I just found one in my garden that doesn't have the partial veil. The stem is also rather smooth and tapering slightly towards the top. The gills are creamy/milky white, while the fruiting body itself is a pure white.
Here in Southern New England the white amanitas I'm finding this fall are 6" to 7" across when fully open and unfurled, have a significantly bulbous base, only a minimal veil remnant, and the stems have a sticky, resinous, translucent tannish-brown goo on them at or just below where the veil is or should be. Not sure if they're Bisporegera or another species; they are quite impressive and beautiful to look at and photograph, especially since I often find them in scattered patches of a dozen or so. Also lots of Amanita Muscaria var. guessowii around; mostly yellow or slightly peach-colored but I've seen a couple classic red ones as well. They tend to be found near bolete/suillus species, especially Ash Boletes (speckled caps, offset stems, veined pores) and Bitter Boletes (pinkish pores). All of these seem to like mixed deciduous/conifer woodlands; indeed, my general experience as a newbie mushroom enthusiast/forager has been that no conifers = no mushrooms. My own 4 acres of land has no conifers and there are virtually no mushrooms. I also keep an eye out for roadsides and embankments and other areas that might have wood chips used for erosion control or piles of chips left over from utility-company tree-trimming, but I almost never see mushrooms growing on wood chips here. Weird! I have yet to find any hen of the woods here, but chicken of the woods (primarily sulfuratus) are fairly common, especially on the still-rooted stumps of cut or snapped-off trees that are 5 to 10 feet tall. I've found several small flushes of delicious oyster mushrooms; and some honey mushrooms as well, but I have to be very careful about those because they're often mixed in with clumps of Deadly Galerina.
Thanks, does the destroying angel stain red? In south Florida area. Found many creamy colored spore mushrooms, in clusters in leaf litter., not snow white, but stained red
I have some mushrooms that have all features of a death cap or a destroying angel though has more of a bulb on the bottom, any ideas? The caps are pure white so kind of ruled out the false death cap.....
I’ve been hoping someone could help me understand the difference between one of these and an “Atkinson’s Destroying Angel”. There’s not much out there and I’m curious.
It’s called Amanita cf. volvata, it’s a kind of big angel that seems to like sandy soil and pine. I have it in my back yard, not sure how commonly it occurs
Though admittedly, the ID I got on this yard mushroom was validated by others I trust, but it wasn’t sent to a lab or similar. So it’s always possible it was something else, though when I posted it there were a few folks who pointed to cf volvata
It's funny that even Rod Tulloss claims that even he can only correctly identify medium-sized section Amidella specimens in the field about 60-80% of the time. That's an interesting admission.
