Fly Agaric at Braddon, ACT
Identification history
| Amanita muscaria | 5 May 2015 | Heino | ||
| Amanita muscaria | 5 May 2015 | AaronClausen |
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User's notes
Is this an Amanita mushroom??? A single large one approx 15cm in diameter, in a garden just out the back of Canberra Centre...
3 comments
Heino
wrote:
11 May 2015
Thus far Amanita caesarea has not been recorded from Australia though in northern Australia you do find something similar to the Asian Amanita hemibapha, which in turn has some resemblance to the European Amanita caesarea. There are quite a number of cases in Europe, modern and back to the 1800s, of people having mistaken muscaria for caesarea - and guidebooks continue to warn readers about this. In caesarea the cap may initially have large white membranous patches, but these rarely persist so that once the cap has expanded it is almost always a smooth reddish-orange. In muscaria lots of small, white membranous flakes usually persist. Certainly, the resemblance would be very close if all those small white flakes had been weathered off.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.135840-35.279986
- Altitude 574.6m
- Maps City Renewal Authority Area
- Places Braddon, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 - 3 Abundance
- 5 May 2015 12:21 PM Recorded on
- AaronClausen Recorded by
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Collections
Fungi Caps on stems; gills below caps [mushrooms or mushroom-like] AaronClausen
Species information
- Amanita muscaria Scientific name
- Fly Agaric Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Exotic
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1344.6m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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In flower
