distant; sometimes forked near the stem; whitish to creamy; often discoloring yellowish brown to brownish, but not bruising. stem: - cm long; - cm thick; white, discoloring brownish to yellowish or reddish near the base; dry; often becoming cavernous; more or less smooth. flesh: white; unchanging when sliced...
gills: attached or pulling away from the stem; close or nearly distant; buff or yellowish; sometimes spotting or discoloring brownish. stem: - cm long; - cm thick; whitish, discoloring yellowish to brownish or reddish brown; often becoming cavernous; more or less smooth. flesh: white; unchanging when sliced...
maturity; the skin peeling with difficulty, usually only near the margin. gills: attached to the stem or running slightly down it; nearly distant; white when young but creamy with maturity. stem: - cm long; - cm thick; white, often with a flush of pink; dry; fairly smooth. flesh: white; unchanging when sliced...
enlarged toward the base; dry; bald or finely hairy; white, discoloring yellowish to orangish in age; with a high, thick, white ring that is finely grooved on its upper surface and radially split or "cogwheeled" on its underside; base with white mycelial threads . flesh: white; firm; unchanging when sliced...
the base; whitish to brownish above, but sometimes colored like the cap near the base; bald, becoming fibrillose; bruising pink to red when fresh; with a skirtlike, whitish ring ; usually featuring one to several brown to brownish ringlets near the base. flesh: white; quickly pink, then red when sliced...
"abrupt" is a perfect description of the basal bulb of amanita abrupta; it looks like an egg that has been sliced off and stuck on the end of the stem!...
bald or finely hairy; with a fragile whitish ring that often collapses or may disappear; without a prominently swollen base; with a whitish volva that usually has a free upper edge but may appear as "rings" near the base of the stem or as indistinct, appressed material. flesh: white; unchanging when sliced...
- cm long; up to cm thick; more or less equal; bald or powdery; whitish, often discoloring and bruising slightly brownish; with a cream-colored, skirt-like ring ; the base enclosed in a sack-like, white to yellowish volva that sometimes crumbles. flesh: white to faintly yellowish; unchanging when sliced...
typically has a pinched-off bottom and features an adherent white volva that folds over to form a collarlike rim on the upper edge of the bulb (occasionally also featuring a few loosely clinging concentric rings of volval material). flesh: white throughout; thin; hollowing in the stem; not changing when sliced...
with a large, skirtlike, fragile, whitish ring that usually disappears; terminating in a turnip-shaped basal bulb that often features a tapering "root" (up to cm or more long); with powdery, indistinct volval remnants ; stained bluish to greenish blue near the base. flesh: white; unchanging when sliced...