Tawny Grisette

Amanita fulva Fr.

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The Tawny Grisette (Amanita fulva) is a tall, slender Amanita with an orange-brown cap, often darker at the central bump and finely grooved around the edge. The free gills are cream and crowded. Like all grisettes it has no ring, and its long white to pale yellow stem rises from a large, fragile white volva, often stained rusty, that is easily left behind in the ground.

It grows in mixed woodland with both broadleaf trees and conifers, often beside paths, from July into October, and is widespread and common.

The Orange Grisette (Amanita crocea) is brighter orange with zig-zag bands on the stem, and the Grisette (Amanita vaginata) is grey. Pale forms have been confused with the deadly Deathcap (Amanita phalloides), which has a ring. The Tawny Grisette is poisonous raw and, like every Amanita, should never be collected to eat.

Spore Print

Season

Native

toxic

Distribution

Widespread and common

Habitat

In mixed woodlands, both broadleaf and coniferous

Etymology

Amanita is thought to come from Mount Amanus in southern Turkey, though its origin is uncertain. fulva is Latin for 'tawny' or 'reddish-yellow', after the cap.

Cap

Orange-brown, darker at the central bump, smooth, with a finely grooved edge; usually without veil patches.

Colour
Shape	Umbonate, Flattened
Surface	Smooth
Width	4 - 10 cm
Margin	Striate

Gills

Free, crowded and cream.

Colour
Attachment	Free
Spacing	crowded

Flesh

Thin, cream and fragile.

Colour
Taste	Mild

Stem

The stem is white to pale yellow, smooth, tapering upwards, 15-18 cm long and 8-15 mm wide, and has no ring. It rises from a large sack-like volva, which is fragile, with rust-brown stains or warty external fragments.