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Eucalyptus armillaria
Armillaria luteobubalina
-37.8905, 145.363
Field Notes
Description:
A tightly packed but tidy cluster of clean looking fungi with slightly domed to flat tan coloured caps, some small granules on top, about 60mm wide at most; gills dense but simple and very white; slightly notched; stems white with a definite ring one quarter of the way down; gills and stipe show some bright yellow bits - possibly spore?
Habitat:
On the base of a very large eucalyptus (E regnans) in tall rain forest. National park.
Notes:
Unusually clean looking for armillaria which usually seem dirty to me. First described in 1978 ....."Widely distributed in southern Australia, the fungus is responsible for a disease known as Armillaria root rot, a primary cause of Eucalyptus tree death and forest dieback. It is the most pathogenic and widespread of the six Armillaria species found in Australia." - Wikipedia
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