False death cap
Amanita citrina · 柠檬黄鹅膏
Occasional鹅膏科⚠️ Poisonous
Reference sources list this as a poisonous mushroom.
The same species can be described differently across regions and stages of maturity, and countless look-alike species cannot be told apart by eye. Never use the information on this page to judge whether a real mushroom is safe to eat.
How to Tell
- Cap pale lemon-yellow to nearly white, often patched with white veil remnants
- Stem base distinctly bulbous, rimmed with a volva scar
- Smells of raw potato
ID notes are compiled by AI from public sources, not reviewed by a mycologist, for learning only — never a basis for foraging.
Basics
- Family
- 鹅膏科
- Hymenium
- Gills
- Grows On
- Mycorrhizal
- How Big
- 4–10 cm (cap diameter)
- Encounter Rate
- Occasional
- Habitat
- Ground in oak and pine woods
Easily Confused With
Death capStem base has a white cup-shaped volva, often buried under leaf litterFun Fact
Break it open and it smells distinctly of raw potato, one clue for telling it apart from the death cap — though smell alone should never be the deciding factor.
More in this family
- American Caesar
- Caesar's mushroom
- Destroying angel
- East Asian death cap
- East Asian yellow death cap
- Fly agaric
- Grisette
- Half-dyed slender caesar
- Panther cap
- Smith's amanita
- The blusher