Royal agaric

The amanita of Césars or Oronge is the king mushrooms, the dream of the mycologist. It was formerly reserved for the table of the Roman Emperors, from where its name.

Characteristics

The Amanite S are Champignon S with white blades, seldom yellow, with bulbous foot often engainé in a volva, with or without ring, whose spores are white. That one is almost only whose blades are yellow, with Amanita crocea , with yellowish blades.

Description

It is a very beautiful mushroom whose hat (up to 15-20 cm) is orange sharp, usually naked but sometimes with large scraps of volva. The foot (10-15 cm length for a diameter of 2-3 cm), the ring and the blades are yellow sharp, the volva is white, it is thick, membranous, in the shape of bag. The odor is a good odor of mushroom, savor is soft and resembles that of the hazel nut fraiche.

Habitat

The Oronge pushes under the leafy trees in the southernmost areas of the France”, it is what one can read on the majority of the works of mycology. In Mediterranean region, one finds some in the directed hêtraies northern. However since 2001 one finds of it each year in Île-de-France, which would tend to prove that the Northern limit of the territory of this mushroom is moving back.

Edibility

It is an excellent edible, which can be eaten as well believed as cooked.

a small receipt

To cut mushroom in fine plates, to decorate it of an olive oil net and of a lemon juice net (of the vinegar the savor of the royal agaric would mask), to salt, pepper and… to taste !

Possible confusions

One can confuse the amanita of Césars with the false royal agaric or Fly agaric which is toxic, but for that one should not look closely there because:
  1. the fly agaric has the white blades and foot (see photo opposite) and not yellow sharp .
  2. the hat of the fly agaric is strewn with small white flakes which are remainders of the volva which is flocculent and not in the shape of bag as at the amanita of Césars .
  3. the Fly agaric often pushes under birches or spruces, habitat which is never that of the Oronge .

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