Amanita ochrophylla group
Mongarlowe River
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| Amanita ochrophylla group | Heino1 | 27 Feb 2024 | |
| Unverified | arjay | 16 Feb 2024 |
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4 comments
27 Feb 2024
This is still very immature, at the stage where the bulbous base dominates the much smaller, unexpanded cap that sits like a smaller ball atop the bulbous base. Eventually the cap becomes much larger than the base.
27 Feb 2024
Those pesky mushroom eaters! In a book published in 1759 Antonio Battarra tells of an experiment he’d carried out in 1747. This was a time when many still believed that fungi did not produce anything like seeds but just grew from the slime of the earth. However, there were those who believed otherwise and experimented. Battarra says he had collected powder from a gilled fungus and had sown this powder in ideal conditions. He soon saw small, embryonic mushrooms but when he went back three days later he says “to my great displeasure I found everything eaten by insects”.
27 Feb 2024
Rats and antechinus eat them as well I think. A brilliant fungal experience was walking in Dorrigo National Park some years ago when the fungi were releasing spores ... there were clouds of it. Amazing.
Location information
- Maps Mongarlowe River
- Places Charleys Forest, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
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- arjay Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Amanita ochrophylla group Caps on stems; gills below caps [mushrooms or mushroom-like] Fungi
Species information
- Amanita ochrophylla group Scientific name
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- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 967.33m Recorded at altitude
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Synonyms
Amanita ochrophylla
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