Amanita crenulata

Amanita crenulata, also known as the poison champagne amanita is a species of fungus that is very common in the Northeast United States.

Amanita crenulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Amanitaceae
Genus:	Amanita
Species:	A. crenulata
Binomial name
Amanita crenulata Peck (1900a)

Amanita crenulata
float Mycological characteristics
	gills on hymenium
	cap is flat
	hymenium is adnate
	stipe has a ring
	spore print is white
	ecology is mycorrhizal
	edibility: poisonous

Description

• Cap: 2 – 9 cm wide, hemispheric at first, then becoming flatter. Pale tan, sometimes grayish or yellowish. The volva is distributed over the wide cap as powdery, somewhat paler warts. The color of the warts lends the mushroom the name "champagne."
• Gills: narrowly adnate, close to subcrowded, and white to cream. The short gills are truncate to subtruncate or (occasionally) subattenuate.[1]
• Stipe: The stipe is 17 - 100 × 3.5 - 16 mm and has a skirt-like annulus that is often quickly lost or left in torn fragments on the pileus margin. The notable bulb usually bears a distinct ring of champagne volval powder on its "shoulder."[1]
• Odour: Not distinct.

It is an ectomycorrhizal fungus, living in root symbiosis with a tree.

Biochemistry

Amanita crenulata when ingested can produce symptoms associated with ibotenic acid/muscimol intoxication.[2] It is considered poisonous.[3]

See also

• List of Amanita species

References

1. Amanita crenulata at amanitaceae.org Accessed Sep 2019
2. Amanita crenulata a common poisonous misunderstood mushroom p.1
3. Phillips, Roger (2010). Mushrooms and Other Fungi of North America. Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books. p. 25. ISBN 978-1-55407-651-2.

External links

• Amanita crenulata at amanitaceae.org
• Powdery Amanitas, at mushroomthejournal.com
• "Amanita crenulata, a common, poisonous, misunderstood mushroom," R. Tulloss, 1990, accessed Sep. 2019