Amanita farinacea at Clyde River Retreat

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	Amanita farinacea	2 Apr 2020	Pam
	Unidentified	8 Mar 2020	ClydeRiver

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Very soft pure white toadstools that rubbed off onto the fingers very easily. Growing in the damper areas of the forest that were flooded.

9 comments

ClydeRiver wrote:

1 Apr 2020

I have just added more photographs from near the house but now I have them all together, I think I have not got exactly the same toadstools ... maybe/maybe not. I may have to wait for the three round ones to grow a bit more as I am expected them to turn in to slightly flatter toadstools like the first three posted previously and then as they grow even more to look like the one in the last photograph which sits just behind these three (four) round ones.

Pam wrote:

2 Apr 2020

You have a couple of Amanita species in great condition. I like how you've been able to record developmental stages. Also of note on image 5 there is an insect on left side of the cap - this is the fungus fly Tapeigaster luteipennis! Now back to the fungi. I suspect images 1,2,3, and 5 are Amanita farinacea and image 4 immature specimens of Amanita pyramidifera or something like that - need to see it in a more mature stage of development. All of these are mycorrhizal so note the nearby tree species if you are able.

Pam wrote:

2 Apr 2020

If you could take down image 4 and maybe reload it as a new sighting particularly if you are able to photograph it as it becomes more mature.

ClydeRiver wrote:

3 Apr 2020

Will do - I call them my 'Telescope Toadstools' as they remind me of a bunch of telescopes that I used to see when I lived in the Northern Beaches. That fly you mention is always present on that one toadstool when I go to look at it. I should also mention that the larger toadstool is much higher up than the original ones - this is at about 50m.

ClydeRiver wrote:

3 Apr 2020

So now I have added in two new pictures each of the larger toadstools - one (not the one that attracts the flies) is much more yellow and warty than the other. I only presume they are the same because they grow in close proximity. They grow at the base of an Apple Blossom Angophora but are slightly overhung by a black wattle branch from a tree growing behind the beautiful Angophora.

Pam wrote:

7 Apr 2020

Thanks for that additional information. It will be interesting to see if these same species appear in the same location over coming years.

Pam wrote:

7 Apr 2020

Oh by the way the female of that Fungus Fly will have layed her eggs in the fungus and then the male stands guard on the fungus.

ClydeRiver wrote:

8 Apr 2020

Oh, that's interesting ... there are a couple more of those flies now. Regarding 'same place next year', I wouldn't be surprised as a long row of cascading toadstools have turned up nearby, in exactly the same place as they grew last year ... I think they may have been my first entry in the fungus category.

Pam wrote:

8 Apr 2020

This is why records with images, dates and localities potentially help build up our knowledge of how everything is interacting

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