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Amanita muscaria
Mature mushrooms growing under exotic trees such as oak, horse chestnut and pine (pics 3,4 and 5 respectively). They never grow under native trees such as Acacia (pic #6).
Roadside reserve beside golf course
Spotted on May 20, 2012
Submitted on May 20, 2012
11 Comments
Thanks my hawkins. They are the most handsome of mushrooms and very easy to photograph nicely.
@ pouihi I sometimes see these as a group in a very straight line so their seeding pattern is interesting. Maybe they are following a tree root?
An perfect picture
Yes we seldom see huge groups, even under pines, but this oak has about 20 of them. How can you resist taking another photo?
Really nice!!
..Always near the golf course!
Thanks carolina
Wonderful,great series!!!
:-) Excellent information, and glad the rum cans went in the bin. We have an area here at the back of our property where there is a natural seasonal stream. Every spring after the woods is flooded by the stream I end up going out and picking up trash that has washed down from the various neighbors property. I even had an old washing machine wash up out here....
These pics were all within 15m from each other and it illustrated so well that this exotic species feeds only on its familiar exotic hosts. (btw, the rum cans went into the bin)
Awesome series! and what a shame with the beer cans, unless of course they were yours and you were carrying them out. ;-)
Wonderful grate shots Matin !
special bonus can fungi