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 D.little91
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 please confirm 
#22999406 - 03/12/16 02:49 PM (4 years, 11 months ago) |
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Found under oak. I'm pretty certain it's A. Velosa but wanted a TI confirmation
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elprawn
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Looks a reasonable guess given the habitat, time of year and general appearance. Someone more knowledgeable can confirm.
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 Lhun
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Re: please confirm [Re: elprawn]
#22999885 - 03/12/16 05:11 PM (4 years, 11 months ago) |
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Yes, Amanita velosa.
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D.little91
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Re: please confirm [Re: Lhun]
#23000077 - 03/12/16 06:27 PM (4 years, 11 months ago) |
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Thanks for the quick response! I'm always a bit worried with these guys still but I feel pretty good about differentiating them from A. Ocreata and A. Phalloides. What identifying characteristics make you feel sure about these? I look for the cap coloring, cottony zone on the stipe beneath the cap, thick volval patch and thick sac-like volva. I know that the above mentioned deadly Amanitas are either white or greenish and that they seldom have volval patches and usually have a much more delicate sac like volvas and anuluses. Also they appear to me to be different in stature if that makes any sense but I don't really know how to describe it exctept that A. Phalloides look more sickly and A. Ocreata seem more eerily sterile.
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Lhun
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Also important is the striate margin along the caps outer edge - this is a feature you don't see on the poisonous ones. A non-bulbous base, and of course A. velosa does not have an annulus (veil around the stem), where both A. ocreata and A. phalloides do.
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