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  3. ›Higher Basidiomycetes
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  5. ›Agaricomycetidae
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  8. ›amanita mushrooms and allies
  9. ›Amaniteae
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  11. ›Amanitina
  12. ›Validae
  13. ›Amanita rubescens
blusher
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blusher

Amanita rubescens

The blusher is the common name for several closely related species of the genus Amanita. A. rubescens, found in Europe and eastern North America, and A. novinupta in western North America. Both their scientific and common names are derived from the propensity of their flesh to turn pink on bruising, or cutting.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 67661.