Orange Grisette - Amanita crocea
A large mushroom up to 100mm across; orange cap with a paler striate edge, white stipe with snakeskin pattern, and volva at stem-base; as with all grisettes there is no ring. Occasionally, paler specimens are found.
Tawny Grisette is more subdued in colour, and is smaller
Photograph from top down, in side-view and underneath to show gills; ensure your photo shows full length of stipe including base; note size, habitat and substrate.
Birch trees, occasionally Beech, Oak or other trees.
July to October.
Occasional but widespread in Britain.
Occasional and local in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Lostash
Leicester Botanical Gardens
02 October 2010
Lostash
Leicester Botanical Gardens
11 October 2015
Lostash
Leicester Botanical Gardens
11 October 2015
egaten
Charnwood Lodge
03 September 2024
Victoria Ray
Saltersford Valley Local Nature Reserve
23 May 2023
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Species profile
- Common names
- Orange Grisette
- Species group:
- fungus
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Amanitaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 10
- First record:
- 02/10/2010 (Watson, Ashley)
- Last record:
- 03/09/2024 (Isabel Raval)
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Lostash
Leicester Botanical Gardens
11 October 2015
Lostash
Leicester Botanical Gardens
11 October 2015
