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Unknown Mushroom

Photo by keithp2012
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Field Notes

Description:

I thought this was an orange, until I got up close and realized it was a fungi! Same shape,size, and color of an orange!

Habitat:

overgrown lot

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (10)
keithp2012
It will be a few months until they appear but if I find another I will do it! It was in an empty field/lot near train tracks so garbage holding spores from another location could be possible and thats why I never saw one like it before.
Mark Ridgway
That sure is a mystery Keith. If you see another one - for the sake of science - please open it. :-) (I think for fungal fruiting bodies it is ok to do)
keithp2012
There are Amanita muscaria here, see this spotting of mine. http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/7154369 But they are nowhere as large. There was a small white stem under this but very short. And this fungi was the size of an orange, which is huge and why I thought it was an orange until I saw it was a mushroom
Lipase
Bolbitius titubans looks kinda similar but most of the photos on google are more egg shaped than your spotting
Lipase
here's some better examples: http://www.melodymcfarland.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Amanita-muscaria-small.jpg http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8036/7986863646_89fd0a691d_z.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Amanita_muscaria_americana.jpg/220px-Amanita_muscaria_americana.jpg
Lipase
was the trunk white like this: http://www.naturephoto-cz.com/photos/maly/american-fly-agaric-yellow-variant-xxx1279.jpg I guess it could be a yellow variety of Amanita muscaria with the white scales washed off. I believe even the red Amanita muscaria can start out yellow underneath the velar scales
keithp2012
It had a trunk like structure under it I just couldn't get a photo, its some kind of mushroom but like nothing I've seen before.
Lipase
it looks like a fruit or berry to me as well?
keithp2012
Does anyone know what species of fungi this is?
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PublishedSeptember 14, 2012

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