Rose-Tinted Amanita

A. roseotincta is a medium-sized Amanita mushroom, with a mature cap ranging from 35-65mm in width and a stipe between 25-150mm in height and 5-20mm in width. Like other Amanita mushrooms, it first appears as an egg or button shape encased by a universal veil; A. roseotincta's is distinct in appearing to have two layers, with the upper layer leaving easily dislodged off-white and quickly darkening pyramidal warts on the cap and the lower layer and partial veil leaving powdery salmon to pink quickly-fading residue on the cap, the underside of the ring, and the stipe. When fully open, the pileus is convex to flat, sometimes showing striation at the edges. The underlying color is cream to white, dry, sometimes with a slight sheen, though this can be obscured under veil remnants. The gills are free, close, and white to cream, and give a white spore print. The stipe is similarly cream-white under a layer of pink to beige pulverulence (with more nearer to the cap) and can bruise reddish. It ends in a swollen round or elliptoid base that is usually at least partially underground. Salmon-orange fragments of universal veil can remain around the volva. …

Amanita roseotincta is found in the United States from New Jersey south to Florida and as far west as Texas. It occurs singly and in groups in pine and mixed-pine forests. Amanita guzmanii, a very similar species from southern Mexico, is a suspected synonym pending research and may mean the range extends farther south than previously identified.