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Gymnopilus junonius
The cap ranges from 7 to 20 cm across, is convex, and is bright orange, orange/brown, or reddish brown with a dry scaly surface. The stem is 25 to 265 mm long, 8 to 9 mm thick, and often narrows near the base. The frail ring is dusted with rusty orange spores, the flesh is yellow and the gill attachment to the stem is adnate to sub-decurrent. It has a bitter taste, stains red with KOH and turns green when cooked in a pan. The spore print is rusty orange. "Each individual mushroom can weigh several pounds. https://www.google.pt/url?sa=t&rct=j...
Gymnopilus junonius is a very widely distributed mushroom which grows in dense clusters on dead hardwoods and conifers. This mushroom grows just about everywhere that decaying wood can be found
spotted in a mix forest near my house. Iam following this ones since Jan 9,first day i saw them,they are going to be huge,when he reach the full size i'll make a spotting report with the several satges
Spotted on Jan 21, 2014
Submitted on Jan 25, 2014
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Thanks Juan,i hope that he stay safe(i put my Noah advertize,asking to not destroy him,last photo),lets see if it works one more time,they can grow over 1kg each one,but they are nor edible :-)
Very cool fungi, congrats Antonio!
Thanks very much Argy,Tiz and Randy for your nice words,it's one of my prefered mushrooms,this trunk give several every year,but this year i think they are going to be huge's
Beautiful Big Laughing Gyms.
I cant believe you have mushrooms in January :) Portugal rocks!
Great series!
Very nicely timed Antonio. The partial veil is just opening.
Thanks Jemma,they make justice to the name :-)
I learned with Lars the lower taken of the shot trick,it give them another style :-)
It's a snail ,i only notice when i edit the photos on the computer,,very cool place to be,protected and with the food near,a house made of food :-)
Spectacular indeed!
This angle makes them look huge! Is that a snail in photo 4?