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Photo by Chaenorrhinum
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Field Notes

Description:

Large orange mushroom with white scales. Older specimen has faded to cream color.

Habitat:

Duff layer under an arborvitae hedge

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (6)
RiekoS
Chaenorrhinum, attached was my spotting and I was told that this was a Fly Agaric. The small ones in this picture look so much like the one I posted... http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/14798045
Chaenorrhinum
No need to apologize, though - good to rule things out as well as in!
Chaenorrhinum
If they're growing that close together, they are likely all fruiting off of the same mycelium. It would be very unusual to see a mixed colony of fungi that close together.
RiekoS
Sorry about that (I did not see the second picture). How about little rounded ones at the bottem? I actually posted flat ones as "unnown" too.
Chaenorrhinum
It is not a fly agaric. The universal veil is not attached to the stalk in the right place and the scales on the cap are flat, not raised and warty.
RiekoS
Fly Agaric (yellow form) Amanita muscaria var. formosa

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Mission
WILD Cities: Urban Biodiversity
Mission
Great Lakes Monitoring
Photographed
PublishedOctober 6, 2012

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