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NickCantle
Knight Commander of the Wild Empire
Registered: September 2006
Location: East Harling, Norfolk
Posts: 9,160
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Ken Burgess
Officer of the Wild Empire
Registered: October 2009
Location: Greater Manchester
Posts: 658
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Wed October 12, 2011 6:09pm
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This was found the day before I arrived and I did query the identification of the dried up specimen. The image of the specimens in situ shows a marginate bulb at the base of the stem and, as far as I'm aware, Amanita virosa never has this character. I think it must be back to the drawing board, John. Did you consider a variant of Amanita citrina or perhaps Amanita porphyria? Perhaps a flick through the Fungi Europaei book on Amanita might help?
Ken
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FungiJohn
Knight of the Wild Empire
Registered: March 2006
Location: Sheffield
Posts: 9,764
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Wed October 12, 2011 7:17pm
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Very interesting Ken, and thanks too Nick
This is the usual location for (confirmed) Amanita virosa but we did have concerns over the general jiz of some of them this season.
No Amanita citrina species has been reported here before and it is a place I often visit.
There were several fruiting bodies there the weekend before but on Monday when Dave and I visited there were none, which seemed quite odd really!!!
I have a sample from the day so will investigate further and update
John
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