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Monday, October 10, 2022
Mellow
Mushroom in Chatham, MA, on 29 September 2022
4 comments:
Anonymous
said...
Hi Jackie, I tried to do a simple key out on this beauty… possibly Amanita frostiana- a species common in the East. Surely must be an Amanita! We don’t have these in the West. Yes, I get it : Mellow Yellow… Donovan! That’s right.
Jackie, even without seeing gills, stem, volva, this appears to be an Amanita, and probably even Amanita muscaria, your favorite Christmas mushroom that is more typically red with white warts. In the eastern US there are yellowish varieties (var. formosa or var. guessowii). Just my guesses.
Thanks so much for the identification assistance. I was thinking Amanita, too, but wasn't sure about the species.
Also -- Bill, I also thought that it looked like the full moon! Maybe because we were looking for the October full moon this past weekend, so it was on my mind?
And -- glad you caught the Donovan reference. Quite rightly!
4 comments:
Hi Jackie, I tried to do a simple key out on this beauty… possibly Amanita frostiana- a species common
in the East. Surely must be an Amanita! We don’t have these in the West. Yes, I get it : Mellow Yellow…
Donovan! That’s right.
It looks like the full moon.
Jackie, even without seeing gills, stem, volva, this appears to be an Amanita, and probably even Amanita muscaria, your favorite Christmas mushroom that is more typically red with white warts. In the eastern US there are yellowish varieties (var. formosa or var. guessowii). Just my guesses.
Hi, everyone!
Thanks so much for the identification assistance. I was thinking Amanita, too, but wasn't sure about the species.
Also -- Bill, I also thought that it looked like the full moon! Maybe because we were looking for the October full moon this past weekend, so it was on my mind?
And -- glad you caught the Donovan reference. Quite rightly!
:) Jackie
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