Amanita porphyria (Amanita porphyria)
- Diviżjoni: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdiviżjoni: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Klassi: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Sottoklassi: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
- Ordni: Agaricales (Agaric jew Lamellar)
- Familja: Amanitaceae (Amanitaceae)
- Ġenus: Amanita (Amanita)
- Tip: Amanita porphyria (Amanita porphyria)
Fly agaric gray or Amanita porphyry (It-t. Amanita porphyria) huwa faqqiegħ tal-ġeneru Amanita (lat. Amanita) tal-familja Amanitaceae (lat. Amanitaceae).
Amanita porphyry grows in coniferous, especially pine forests. Occurs in single specimens from July to October.
Hat up to 8 cm in ∅, first, then, grayish-brown,
brown-gray with a bluish-violet tint, with filmy flakes of bedspread or without them.
Pulp, with a sharp unpleasant odor.
The plates are free or slightly adherent, frequent, thin, white. Spore powder is white. Spores are rounded.
Leg up to 10 cm long, 1 cm ∅, hollow, sometimes swollen at the base, with a white or gray ring, white with a grayish tint. The vagina is adherent, with free edges, first white, then darkening.
Faqqiegħ velenuż, has an unpleasant taste and smell, therefore it is inedible.