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Photo by Scott Frazier
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Field Notes

Description:

Two pairs of unidentified gilled mushrooms.

Habitat:

These mushrooms were growing at the base of composting leaves and organic matter heaped around a banana tree in a large semi-urban yard and garden next to a disturbed patch of remnant forest. This location is in the equatorial tropics of northern New Guinea.

Notes:

The 2nd photo was taken on the following day.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)
Scott Frazier
Thanks, Mark. I'm least confident with the fungi ;-)
Mark Ridgway
Quite attractive. I wouldn't consider tasting these though. Closest I can find is http://www.amanitaceae.org/?Amanita+similis

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Mushroom Mapping
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Biota of S. Frazier's Yard at Sentani, Papua, Indonesia

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PublishedOctober 7, 2013

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