The Garlic-Odored Death Cap is a white to cream spore-colored mycorrhizal mushroom that associates mostly with Oak and Pine trees east of the Rocky Mountains. This species is considered deadly poisoinous.

It has free, white gills. The stem has a ring (annulus) near the top and a sack-like cup (volva) at the base.

August 3rd, 2023 Field Notes:

• Growing solitarily on open mixed oak/hickory woodland ridge.
• Nearby Trees: American Hophornbeam, Black Oak, June Berry, Ash, Bur Oak, and Shagbark Hickory.
• Cap large (14-15cm), white, slightly tacky with a faintly striated margin.
• Lamellae white, crowded with frequent short gills, slightly serrated and not attached to the stipe.
• Stipe white, with prominent annulus and enlarged white sack-like volva at the base, hollow or with central pith, and with upward recurved fibers most prominent midway up.
• Smell: not distinctive.
• Taste: faintly bitter sensation, but more or less not distinctive.
• KOH: lightly yellow on pileipellis and yellowish on stipe.
• Spore Print: white
• Microscopy: basidia with 4 sterigmata.