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Rooting Shank -with spore print
Xerula gigaspora
-37.8762, 145.351
Field Notes
Description:
The first photo is the spore print (white) of this stately mushroom. I was amazed at the exquisite spore pattern, which even showed the delicate fold of the gills. The amount of spores that I got from this mushroom was equally amazing.
The mushroom itself is tall with a greenish brown very viscid cap (80 mm wide) with a slightly raised centre. The tall stipe was smooth and white. Gills were white and marginate (free edges were dark - pic #3)
Habitat:
Grass in nature reserve, close to pine trees.
Notes:
These mushrooms are beautiful with their very shiny dark caps and striking white gills and stipe. I found several of these on the grass in cleared parts of a nature reserve but most of them had been knocked over.
The common name refers to its long tapering root-like extension of the stipe.
This mushroom was known as Oudmansiella radicata var. australis. Fuhrer's book lists it as Xerula gigaspora
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