Half-dyed slender caesar
Amanita hemibapha · 红黄鹅膏
Rarely Seen鹅膏科🔥 Edible With Preparation
Sources report it requires expert processing before it can be eaten; cases of poisoning from improper handling have been recorded.
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 orange-red to red, margin clearly striate
- Gills and stem yellow; stem banded with ring-like markings
- Base has a white sac-like volva, egg-like when young
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
- 6–15 cm (cap diameter)
- Encounter Rate
- Rarely Seen
- Habitat
- Oak woodland in Yunnan and elsewhere
Easily Confused With
Caesar's mushroomCap orange-red and smooth, margin striate
Fly agaricHalf-dyed slender caesar has a smooth orange-red cap with no white warts, and yellow gills.
East Asian yellow death capHalf-dyed slender caesar has an orange-red cap with a striate margin and yellow gills; East Asian yellow death cap has white gills, no striations.Fun Fact
Called 'egg mushroom' in Yunnan, a young specimen is fully wrapped in a white volva and looks just like an egg. It shares its genus with the deadly East Asian yellow death cap, making foraging risky.
More in this family
- American Caesar
- Death cap
- Destroying angel
- East Asian death cap
- False death cap
- Grisette
- Panther cap
- Smith's amanita
- The blusher