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Amethyst Deceiver

Notes:

Found in Bialowesia (sp? can't remember) National Park in Poland.




1 species ID suggestions

Amethyst Deceiver
Laccaria amethystina Laccaria amethystina

9 Comments

Jellis
Jellis 8 months ago

Beautiful mushroom
If you add the scientific name it will remove it from the Unknown section
Laccaria amethystina

Ivan Rodriguez
Ivan Rodriguez 11 months ago

Words just don't do this justice; you are quite fortunate to find and photograph this phenomenal mushroom. Congrats! :)

patty
patty 11 months ago

beauty

LucBertrand
LucBertrand a year ago

very nice !!!!!

MihaiER
MihaiER a year ago

In the reference says it's edible, but with such colors I don't think I will try....
Great shoot!

LarsKorb
LarsKorb a year ago

yep, it's an Amethyst Deceiver - pretty large, btw - nice catch

Beelover
Beelover a year ago

Whoa cool! Never seen a mushroom that vivid of a color!

Carolina
Carolina a year ago

I agree, Alice!

What amazing color!

Schönstedt, Freistaat Thüringen, Germany

Lat: 51.17, Long: 10.45

Spotted on Jan 25, 2005
Submitted on Jan 26, 2012

Spotted for mission

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