Amanita mushroom stem bases - Volvas, bulbs, and muscaroid zones!

Описание: In this video, I discuss three Amanita mushroom species with drastically different types of tissue at the base of the stem. First up is Amanita bisporigera, one of the deadly mushrooms commonly called destroying angels. Amanita bisporigera has a volva at the base, which is a tidy cup of tissue that is the remains of a universal veil that once protected the baby mushroom.
Next, I share a specimen of Amanita canescens/media/radiata, which is a gray and warty mushroom that looks nearly identical to Amanita muscaria. In the video, I call it "Amanita pantherina group, but not really." Friends and experts David Snow and Jessika Gauvin gave me the proper ID, for which I am very grateful! Amanita canescens has a muscaroid stem, which means it has rolled, ragged zones of tissue around a fat chunky stem base.
Finally, I grudgingly handle a smelly and powdery Amanita in section Lepidella. I give it a vague "maybe" ID of Amanita ducipes, but I'm not sure. Either way, Lepidellas have fat bulbous bases that are neither zoned or volvate.
Throughout, you can expect my usual sidebars and verbal blunders and caveats, including a short treatise on the safe handling of poisonous mushrooms (spoiler: it's fine, you should totally do it), a strong recommendation to learn Amanitas early in your mushroom hunting career, and something about how my muscaroid mushroom can't possibly be Amanita pantherina in the strict sense because of course that's just a European species like everything else in the universe.