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inski
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Help with id of strange white mushroom.
#5532445 - 04/19/06 05:27 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Found these in native bush in New Zealand growing of leaf litter under Tree Ferns. The caps were around 20-30mm diameter,White and conical with some weird fluffy stuff that turns to powder when touched.The stems were 30mm long by 3mm diameter with the same powdery stuff but not as much.Gills are white and not attached.Spore print white.They also have an extremely strong mushroom smell.Giant nipple!!







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Re: Help with id of strange white mushroom. [Re: inski]
#5532459 - 04/19/06 05:42 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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can't help with the id but thats a cool looking mushroom! where abouts in NZ is it?
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Re: Help with id of strange white mushroom. [Re: inski]
#5532465 - 04/19/06 05:49 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Wow, excellent pics! 
I've not seen anything quite like that before but my guess is some sort of Lepiota..
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inski
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Re: Help with id of strange white mushroom. [Re: Roker]
#5532466 - 04/19/06 05:50 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Auckland.
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Re: Help with id of strange white mushroom. [Re: inski]
#5532481 - 04/19/06 05:58 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I also think Lepiota. It looks like it might be one of the Parasol mushrooms, a relative of Lepiota procera.
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inski
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Re: Help with id of strange white mushroom. [Re: Amatoxin]
#5532484 - 04/19/06 05:59 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Amatoxin, thanks.  Yeah we've never seen anything like it either, strong mushroom smell even when not close. inski.
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inski
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Re: Help with id of strange white mushroom. [Re: shroomydan]
#5532514 - 04/19/06 06:25 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Hi shroomydan. Everything adds up to Lepiota, white gills free from the stem, white spores but I havn't noticed a partial veil even in the recently opened ones, dont Lepiota species have a veil? inski.
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Re: Help with id of strange white mushroom. [Re: inski]
#5532528 - 04/19/06 06:33 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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All that I can think of have veils, but yours are unlike any I have seen. I think Lepiota has several satellite genera, some of which may not have partial veils.
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inski
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Re: Help with id of strange white mushroom. [Re: shroomydan]
#5532592 - 04/19/06 07:10 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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At first I thought some sort of mold was growing on them but then I found more that were the same.Might try to get some microscope pics.You should see the variety of fungus in the native bush here at the moment, it's getting hard to keep up with.By the way what's that shroom in your avatar?
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Re: Help with id of strange white mushroom. [Re: inski]
#5532698 - 04/19/06 08:08 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Maybe you've found the famous New Zealand "Noddy Cap" 
Quote:
http://www.funnz.org.nz/forays/17/report.htm
Peter Austwick finished off the morning with a talk on Lepiota nauscosa (which he nicknames "noddy caps" due to it's peaked cap), a fungus that smells like vomit.

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Re: Help with id of strange white mushroom. [Re: Amatoxin]
#5567831 - 04/28/06 06:21 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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rotting amanitas muscaria?
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