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Gymnopilus junonius
Those large myshrooms were everywhere in this pine & eucalyptus coastal area, at Port Levy. They had deep scales of orange color, and the whole mushroom was orange too, in the cap & stem...Growing straight from a tree trunk or from the ground around the trunk, clearly saprophytic...
Spotted on Apr 2, 2011
Submitted on Nov 20, 2012
5 Comments
I prefer to look at it and take pictures of it, than to try it...I don't think it worths the risk...
It should produce interesting effects if brewed into a tea! Otherwise it is a pretty spectacular mushroom on it's own.
Gymnopilus spectabilis is the old name in fact :-)
Dear @gully.moy, I just confirmed, the species, you were absolutely right, I found it in: http://www.kaimaibush.co.nz/Fungi/Gymnop...
http://www.kaimaibush.co.nz/Fungi/
Thanks for the suggestion, dear @gully.moy, I'll have to compare the species with the information given in 2 NZ fungi catalogs that I use, and I'll be back :)
Wow, very nice! I'm pretty sure they're Gymnopilus, maybe G. junonius.