Amanita ochrophylla group

Mongarlowe River

Amanita ochrophylla group at Mongarlowe River - 11 Feb 2024
Amanita ochrophylla group at Mongarlowe River - 11 Feb 2024
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Identification history

Amanita ochrophylla group 27 Feb 2024 Heino1
Unidentified 16 Feb 2024 arjay

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4 comments

Heino1 wrote:
   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.
arjay wrote:
   27 Feb 2024
Yep and in the meantime something came and ate it. Anyway it vanished.
Heino1 wrote:
   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”.
arjay wrote:
   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.

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  • 1 Abundance
  • 11 Feb 2024 06:52 PM Recorded on
  • arjay Recorded by

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  • Amanita ochrophylla group Scientific name
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  • Not Sensitive
  • Local native
  • Non-Invasive
  • Up to 640m Recorded at altitude
  • Machine learning

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