The fungus forms a white, woolly mycelium on the surface of decomposing oak leaves.
Over and above the novel bits of sewing, the threads and woolly patches which disturb the surfaces of his otherwise somewhat reserved tonal paintings, his work seems to owe too much to Spanish painter, Miquel Barcelo, who also uses as lot of extraneous material along with paint, and to the psychological terrains of Peter Doig, a previous Turner nominee, rather than becoming thoroughly itself.
The surface is covered with tufts of soft woolly hairs, and has persistent papillae.
When young, the surface of the cap is covered with a woolly whitish or yellowish veil that breaks up into short-lived flakes or scales; this process reveals the radially striate (grooved) gray to grayish-brown cap surface.
The fruit bodies of Amanita kotohiraensis, a species known only from Japan, bears a superficial resemblance to A. abrupta, but A. kotohiraensis differs in having scattered floccose patches (tufts of soft woolly hairs that are the remains of the volva) on the cap surface, and pale yellow gills.
Fig. 5 Photographs of the paint film surface showing a the orange peel texture, b and c the "woolly edges", and d damages to the door decoration.
The stem surface above the level of the ring is white, sparsely covered with woolly or fuzzy tufts, occasionally breaking into transverse bands; below the ring the stem surface is smooth or occasionally breaks into bands or fibrillose scales.
The surface of the stem is smooth or has delicate tufts of soft, white, woolly hairs.
The surface of the stem above the level of the ring is white and covered in woolly tufts of mycelia; below the ring it is white with buff to greyish transverse, grooved bands.
There were variations on embellishment from a woolly Mongolian lamb vest, cut backless to leave two deep lapels, to the organza circles that created a confettilike surface.
