Amanita citrina 1
This white mushroom is also called the False Destroying Angel because when young it looks like a Destroying Angel. However, when older brown patches show up on its top.
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Amanita citrina
Type: GilledCollection date: 10/11/2008
Name: Amanita citrina
Common Name: False destroying angel
Description: This white gilled mushroom with ring and volva resembles the Destorying Angel when young. As it gets old it can take on a yellowish tinge with brown spots. The bulb sometimes cleft resembling cleft-foot amanita.
Edibility: Poisonous/Suspect
Color: White to Cream
Size: 5 to 15cm
Cap type: Convex
Gills: Free
Stem type: Tapering Upward
Flesh: white
Texture: Flesh granular or brittle
Veil: partial-membranous
Ring: membranous
Volva: saclike
Mycelium: white
Spore color: White,cream,yellowish
Habitat: Grows in woods
Habitat2: Grows on the ground
Habitat3: Oak Beech Maple
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grows from the ground initially is white, then turns silver and then black and falls apart. what kind of mushroom is this?