|gills on hymenium| |cap is convex| |hymenium is free| |stipe
has a ring and volva| |spore print is white| |ecology is
mycorrhizal| |but not recommended| Amanita caesarea, commonly
known in English as Caesar's Mushroom, is a highly regarded
edible mushroom in the genus Amanita, native to southern Europe
and North Africa. It has a distinctive orange cap, yellow gills
and stem. Similar orange-capped species occur in North America
and India. It was known to and valued by the Ancient Romans, who
called it Boletus, a name now applied to a very different type
of fungus. Taxonomy and naming Amanita caesarea was first
described by Italian mycologist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in 1772
as Agaricus caesareus, before later being placed in Amanita by
Persoon in 1801. The common name comes from its being a favorite
of the Roman emperors, who took the name Caesar (originally a
family name) as a title. The Romans called it Bōlētus, derived
from the Ancient Greek βωλιτης for this fungus as named by
Galen. Several modern common