
False Caesar's Mushroom (Amanita parcivolvata)
At the base of a ridge (growing amongst wildflowers and herbs) at the edge of a dense mixed hardwood/coniferous forest in NW Georgia (Gordon County), US.
This mushroom looks much like Amanita muscaria or mushrooms in Amanita section Caesareae, however, it lacks the large, cup-like volva at the base of the stipe (typical of the latter) as well as an annulus (typical of the former). It has powdery, volval remnants on its cap which are easily washed away with rain.

''Amanita parcivolvata'' is a fungus that produces fruit bodies that vaguely resemble those of ''Amanita muscaria''. It is differentiated, however, by its lack of an annulus, by the volval deposits on its stipe/base, and by its pileal striations.
