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A group of unidentified (Chlorophyllum ?), gilled mushrooms, with the capacity to grow quite tall and large. The last photo is from the following day (after the mushroom caps opened and flattened) and the height of the tallest was ~23 cm, while the lens cap (placed in the photo for scaling) was 6 cm in diameter.
These mushrooms were growing at the edge of a heap of composting leaves and organic matter at the base of a banana tree in a large semi-urban yard and garden next to a disturbed patch of remnant forest. This location is in the equatorial tropics of northern New Guinea.
These and several other types of fungi sprouted after consecutive days of heavy rainfall.
Spotted on Apr 16, 2014
Submitted on Apr 17, 2014
4 Comments
Thanks António. It's one of my own favorite mushroom spottings. :-)
Very nice finding Scott,if it was in europe i would say that it looks like a parasol mushroom Macrolepiota sp,but in Papua i dont risk :-)
Congrats and thanks for sharing
Thanks Dr!
Beautiful parasol!