Amanita citrina/False Deathcap?

[cervinae]

Found this this fellow in our local woods in Gateshead (mixed but primarily silverbirch and oak). I believe it to be a young False Deathcap.


In situ


And sliced (4 inch blade on knife)

[juliohevia]

Looks like it! :-)

[NickCantle]

I don't see that there's enough information in the photograph to make an ID on this. The cap is overexposed (though you're excused as I read about your photography knowledge in the other thread ) and there's nothing here to tell us that it's A. citrina (and at that colour it'd be the white variation A. citrina var. alba) To be perfectly honest, there's nothing in those images that would rule out A. virosa IMO. But I wouldn't hold out in hope of getting a certain ID for this one, sorry!

[cervinae]

No need to apologise, Nick. I greatly appreciate your input . I was having a bad day photography wise that day as we were foraging for elder berries, sloes and crab apples. The girlfriend kept grumbling at me to keep up instead of photographing everything.

The cap of this fellow did have a pale "sickly green" green hue which I unfortunately failed to capture. But I will be trying harder in future to get better pics and take more notes

Worse part of that day was treading on the remains of a giant puffball because I was too busy looking up into an elder...

[Deb London]

Originally Posted by cervinae

No need to apologise, Nick. I greatly appreciate your input . I was having a bad day photography wise that day as we were foraging for elder berries, sloes and crab apples. The girlfriend kept grumbling at me to keep up instead of photographing everything.

The cap of this fellow did have a pale "sickly green" green hue which I unfortunately failed to capture. But I will be trying harder in future to get better pics and take more notes

Worse part of that day was treading on the remains of a giant puffball because I was too busy looking up into an elder...

I get that type of earache. Mind you, I don't stand for it.

[cervinae]

It was a very busy day for us, didn't even have time for the usual pub visit

[NickCantle]

Originally Posted by cervinae

The cap of this fellow did have a pale "sickly green" green hue which I unfortunately failed to capture. But I will be trying harder in future to get better pics and take more notes

In that case, I can rule out A. virosa immediately

Originally Posted by cervinae

Worse part of that day was treading on the remains of a giant puffball because I was too busy looking up into an elder...

Don't be worrying about that, you probably aided it in spore dispersal, so if anything, you helped it.

Nick

[cervinae]

There were a couple of giant puffballs around this solitary elder in amongst nettles. I expect I'll be keeping a close eye on that spot next year