Skip to main content
Western Yellow-veil
A brown-capped Amanita of western North America with scattered yellow to brownish warts, white gills, a ring and yellowish to gray veil remnants on the basal bulb. It was long recorded as the European Amanita franchetii (or A. aspera). Bojantchev & Davis (2013) described it as a separate species from California and the Pacific Northwest.
Edibility is unknown; do not eat. Sources disagree: Wikipedia lists it as non-edible, Mykoweb notes some evidence that it is edible, and the Bay Area Mycological Society advises against it and says to assume it may carry hemolytic toxins. It grows in the same woods as deadly white and pale amatoxin Amanitas (the destroying angel A. ocreata, and the death cap A. phalloides), so no unidentified Amanita should be eaten.
This page grows with the community. Here is what it is still missing:
Join WeMush to log cultivation data, discover strains, and connect with fellow growers.
Never eat a wild mushroom based on a web page — confirm with an expert.
