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I thought this was an orange, until I got up close and realized it was a fungi! Same shape,size, and color of an orange!
overgrown lot
Spotted on Sep 14, 2012
Submitted on Sep 14, 2012
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It will be a few months until they appear but if I find another I will do it! It was in an empty field/lot near train tracks so garbage holding spores from another location could be possible and thats why I never saw one like it before.
That sure is a mystery Keith. If you see another one - for the sake of science - please open it. :-) (I think for fungal fruiting bodies it is ok to do)
There are Amanita muscaria here, see this spotting of mine. http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/715...
But they are nowhere as large. There was a small white stem under this but very short. And this fungi was the size of an orange, which is huge and why I thought it was an orange until I saw it was a mushroom
Bolbitius titubans looks kinda similar but most of the photos on google are more egg shaped than your spotting
here's some better examples: http://www.melodymcfarland.com/wordpress... http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8036/79868... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
was the trunk white like this: http://www.naturephoto-cz.com/photos/mal... I guess it could be a yellow variety of Amanita muscaria with the white scales washed off. I believe even the red Amanita muscaria can start out yellow underneath the velar scales
It had a trunk like structure under it I just couldn't get a photo, its some kind of mushroom but like nothing I've seen before.
it looks like a fruit or berry to me as well?
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Does anyone know what species of fungi this is?