Tawny Grisette - Amanita fulva
The cap is tawny orange with a paler area around the edge of the cap which, when mature is flat but with a small umbo. Cap is neatly striated. The gills are white, free and crowded. Stipe is more or less smooth; white or yellowish-brown. There is no ring, but at the base of the stipe there is a large white volva.
Orange Grisette
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.
Woodland, often besides paths.
July to October.
Associated with hardwood and softwood trees.
Widespread and fairly frequent throughout Britain.
Quite frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
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Species profile
- Common names
- Tawny Grisette
- Species group:
- fungus
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Amanitaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 18
- First record:
- 03/09/2010 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 14/10/2025 (Bell, Melinda)
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