Grisette
Amanita vaginata · 灰鹅膏
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 gray, margin distinctly radially striate
- Lacks a ring, unusual for an Amanita
- Base has a white sac-like volva; stem slender
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
- Rarely Seen
- Habitat
- Ground in broadleaf and conifer woods
Easily Confused With
East Asian death capGrisette has no ring and a clearly striate cap margin; East Asian death cap has a ring and a smooth margin.Fun Fact
It's an unusual Amanita with a volva but no ring, and its cap edge shows distinct radiating grooves; the deadly East Asian death cap looks similar enough to cause confusion.
More in this family
- American Caesar
- Caesar's mushroom
- Death cap
- Destroying angel
- East Asian yellow death cap
- False death cap
- Fly agaric
- Half-dyed slender caesar
- Panther cap
- Smith's amanita
- The blusher