The volva is distributed over the cap as cream to pale tan warts; it is otherwise smooth and sticky when wet.

Amanita chrysoblema yellow-orange variant[citation needed] is found growing solitary or gregariously, it is mycorrhizal with conifers mostly but also deciduous trees as well, it is found often in the fall but sometimes in the spring, common in the northeast, from eastern Canada to North Carolina, northwest Florida, and west to Michigan.

[1] As with all other muscaroid mushrooms, Amanita chrysoblema yellow-orange variant[citation needed] contains ibotenic acid, and muscimol, two psychoactive constituents which can cause effects such as hallucinations, synaesthesia, euphoria, dysphoria and retrograde amnesia.

Ibotenic acid is also a scientifically important neurotoxin used in lab research as a brain-lesioning agent in mice.

[3][4] As with other wild-growing mushrooms, the ratio of ibotenic acid to muscimol depends on countless external factors, including: season, age, and habitat - and percentages will naturally vary from mushroom-to-mushroom.