Amanita excels var. spissa Grey Spotted Amanita
Usually found on soil favouring oak, birch, beech but in this case in a mature conifer plantation. Solitary or with a small number of companions, The cap is initially spherical becoming convex, then flattening, fully developed they can reach 150mm across, umber to drab brown/grey, with a generous covering of grey veil remnants.
The gills are white, crowded & free. The stem is cylindrical, often narrowing towards the apex, vertically lined above the ring, below the ring covered with concolorous grey scales, the swollen base narrows significantly below the ground. The persistent, pendulous, fragile ring is lined on the outside and smooth on the inner surface. The flesh in the cap is white, slightly greyer in the stem.
The spore print is white, The Spores are broadly ellipsoid, translucent, smooth & do react with iodine becoming blue-black.
Found on Warren Heath & Heath Warren.