western panther amanita

Caps 3 to 10 cm wide, at beginning spherical soon opening to convex and eventually flattening out in age, viscid when wet and young, a pale or light yellowish brown to yellow-orangish brown with usually more brown over the darker center. Cap margin is smooth when young but as the cap expands the edge develops striations or faint grooves which become more pronounced with age. Cap covered with smallish scattered warts or scales of white to cream colored rather cottony veil remnants which tend to be.. more