| Name: | Amanita gemmata group. (common name?) |
| Family: | Amanitaceae. |
| Spore Color: | White. |
| Size, Smell, Taste: | cap 5 to 12 cm across. Stipe 5 to 11 cm. Odor, taste indistinct. |
| Niche (substrate): | Solitary or in small groups. Common, especially in late fall and early winter. Growing with various conifers in the northern part of our range, often with pine and live oak southward. |
| Edibility: | Poisonous. |
| Distinguishing features: | Creamy yellow to tan cap, whitish warts, skirtlike ring on the stipe, and rimmed bulb. A “confusing species complex” the true A. gemmata does not occur in California. |