False Parasol Mushrooms

Description:

False Parasols are off-white to cream in colour, with darker brown scales scattered on the cap, more densely at the centre, it darkens with age. The juvenile cap can be globose to bell-shaped, aging to convex then plane, with a light umbo (raised apex) and a diameter to 240 mm. Initially, the gills are pallid-whitish but turn pallid-green with age. White above the double ring, darkening below the ring; height up to 280 mm; diameter is even to 10 mm. In this series of photos, some fungi were solitary, but mostly they grew in clusters.

Habitat:

This fungi usually grows in grass, or close to it in soil or leaf litter (as is the case with some of the fungi pictured here). After rain, large numbers appear in lawns and paddocks in Brisbane. These fungi were growing in a commercial complex in the Brisbane suburb of Murarrie.

Notes:

It's exactly 4 years since my last spotting of this species at this location. http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/232... Now, as it was back then, we've experienced a decent spell of rain. I don't recall seeing any of these mushrooms in the period since 2010. Oddly enough, during the massively wet period during the Brisbane flood of Jan 2011, I don't recall seeing any of them then either.