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Amanita flavella
Exquisite yellow cap, slightly cup shaped, underneath gilled, raised areas on cap top, held high from ground on thick white stalk, cap also has a beautiful sheen and the changing light gave it a metallic yellow glow. Approx. 40mm across for the larger one.
Found growing in thick leaf litter and grass in dry woodland environment after rain ending a long dry season.
That's great, thanks gully.moy. No I didn't think there was a native Australian A. muscaria subspecies, I was thinking of Amanita though, so great you found this out for me. It's an incredibly pretty fungi, appears to have that lemon yellow metallic or pearl sheen.
And as far as I can tell there is no native Australian A. muscaria subspecies.
Had to do a little digging to find this one. Looks like it's endemic to New South Wales. Nice find!
Is this fungi possibly yellow fly agaric Amanita species muscaria var formosa? Does anyone know if this is the native Australian species or the introduced one?
Spotted on Apr 20, 2014
Submitted on May 12, 2014
