Amanita lanei

California “Coccora”

Synonym with A. calyptroderma (in Mushrooms Demystified, and elsewhere)

Fall fruiting in oak (and madrone) woods. Featured image courtesy Ralph Johnson in San Luis Obispo on 12/22/12

This Amanita is frequently and tragically confused with the deadly poisonous Amanita phalloides. DO NOT EXPERIMENT.

Guidebooks and Mykoweb report Amanita lanei is mycorrhizal with Madrone in Central California. Within San Luis Obispo County, our specimens are just as frequently in mixed oak-bay woodlands and so resemble the spring-fruiting A. velosa (similar pale orange cap and striate margin) found in live oak-grassland savannah.