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Armillaria - mature

Armillaria hinnulea

Photo by Leuba Ridgway
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

Mature specimens of Armillaria hinnulea show olive-green caps with dark granular material on the centres. Gills were a pale cream as was the stipe, which showed delicate striations up to a fragile annulus.
Spore print was a pale cream.

Habitat:

Spotted in the same wet gully a few feet away from the immature fungi in a previous spotting
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/25081677

These were growing near a walking track

Notes:

A parasitic fungus seen only in Australia and New Zealand.

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