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03-08-2007, 12:27 AM
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| | | 2nd opinion please on Amanita
Hello all 
I’d like a second … third opinion on this Amanita please. I just wish I had taken it home for further investigation.
Found under Oak and very well protected from the rain! I don’t believe this to be A. rubescens    
Many thanks - John |
03-08-2007, 05:51 AM
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| | | Re: 2nd opinion please on Amanita
Blimey John, if you aren't sure, there's no hope for us ............. 
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03-08-2007, 07:08 AM
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| | | Re: 2nd opinion please on Amanita
I'd say that this is the same as David's mushroom which i've linked below. As i thought, they both have similar colour bruising/shape/size etc...
Thoughts? I'd confidently say that they aren't Death Caps...
Here is David's... http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/ga...hp?i=40919&c=8
Strange...
Nick
p.s Just noticed that the caps are very similar too. Volval remains on cap but no apparent volva... |
03-08-2007, 07:18 AM
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| | | Re: 2nd opinion please on Amanita
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Originally Posted by NickCantle  I'd say that this is the same as David's mushroom which i've linked below. As i thought, they both have similar colour bruising/shape/size etc...
Thoughts? I'd confidently say that they aren't Death Caps...
Here is David's... http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/ga...hp?i=40919&c=8
Strange...
Nick
p.s Just noticed that the caps are very similar too. Volval remains on cap but no apparent volva... | Just beat me to it Nick. Got me doubting my ID now. I took mine home and got a white spore print and later the cap flattened and the partial veil completely covering the gills developed into a white hanging ring at the top of the stem.  |
03-08-2007, 07:35 AM
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| | | Re: 2nd opinion please on Amanita
Trust me David, i wasn't doubting your ability to identify
Looks like we have a dilemma here chaps!!!  |
03-08-2007, 08:42 AM
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03-08-2007, 08:43 AM
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| | | Re: 2nd opinion please on Amanita
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Originally Posted by Wild-Woman Blimey John, if you aren't sure, there's no hope for us ............. | I think I'm losing it Jules |
03-08-2007, 08:58 AM
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| | | Re: 2nd opinion please on Amanita
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Originally Posted by FungiJohn | Now I wish I'd had the means for a microscopic investigation of my spore print. (unfortunately owing to my mis-identification as Death Cap, I destroyed the evidence)
I won't mention it John, and I'm sure nobody spotted you were a little 'blusher' |
03-08-2007, 09:08 AM
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| | | Re: 2nd opinion please on Amanita
Apart from the unusually strong red staining - which may be a symptom of wet conditions - it looks like typical Amanita rubescens to me. The cap colour tends to wash out to a paler brown and the volva at the base is only a swelling with a few scales, rather than a sac.
Nothing else on the British list of Amanitas springs to mind.
Ken |
03-08-2007, 09:14 AM
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Surely A.Rubescens would bruise red/pink when the stipe has been cut in half shown in John's first photograph? | | | |
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