DaveChap Posted November 29, 2020 Report Share Posted November 29, 2020 Hey there, went for a dog walk and found some mushrooms. I’m in Greensboro,GA and there are pine and oak trees around. Can anyone id this? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tasso Posted November 29, 2020 Report Share Posted November 29, 2020 Best to post one mushroom at a time to avoid confusion. Also, read this: https://wildmushroomhunting.org/index.php?/topic/2592-how-to-ask-for-help-identifying-mushrooms/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveChap Posted November 29, 2020 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2020 Tasso, Thanks for the info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave W Posted December 1, 2020 Report Share Posted December 1, 2020 I think "Amanita persicina" is a good bet here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_persicina Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOHNY Posted December 1, 2020 Report Share Posted December 1, 2020 It looks so much like a young button stage Amanita muscaria. Is there anything except location (Georgia and Pine trees) that would let you differentiate the two? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave W Posted December 1, 2020 Report Share Posted December 1, 2020 Peachy-orange cap color and yellowish universal veil patches both suggest A. persicina. Until only several years ago Amanita persicina was considered to be a variety of A. muscaria. To gain more confidence in distinguishing persicina from msucaria var. guessowii, examining the base of the stalk sometimes helps. The uv materila that ends up on the stalk base of A. persicina tends to be more disorganized than the complete concentric rings that usually (but not always) form on the base of the muscaria var guessowii stalk. Tulloss says that the range of A. muscaria var guessowii includes the mountainous areas of North Carolina and Tennessee. He suspects the range may extend further south, but offers no evidence to support this hypothesis. Here's a Mushroom Observer post from northern GA of what has been proposed as A. muscaria var. guessowii (and which appears to be the correct ID) https://mushroomobserver.org/414058?q=1Ydnp . Complete confidence in an A. persicina ID here...? No. But, I think that A. persicina would be a more likely species to find in GA, and the mushroom seen here looks like A. persicina. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveChap Posted December 5, 2020 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2020 Thanks for the replies. I’m a restaurant chef running kitchens. Relocated to Georgia temporarily from Chicago. Not really looking to find edible mushrooms, but it seems like it’s mushroom season here. They look so fascinating! Here are more I found of the same kind I think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave W Posted December 5, 2020 Report Share Posted December 5, 2020 I'd be willing to bet these are examples of Amanita persicina. The peachy-orangish color of the caps and the location for their occurrence point this way. Nice job getting a photo of an entire almost mature fruit body (positioned between two caps). The universal veil on the top part of the basal bulb are thin and look kinda flimsy. I think that if this mushroom was allowed to completely expand, the basal uv material would show little in the way of organized concentric bands. Interestingly, the one seen in-situ appears to feature a basal rim of the type one expects to see in species like A. velatipes or A. multisquamosa. But the rim appears to be thin and composed of fragile material that will likely break apart as the mushroom expands. As for the deposits seen near the midsection of the stalk, Tulloss mentions this as something often seen in A. persicina. http://www.amanitaceae.org/?Amanita+persicina Speaking of expanded Amanita mushrooms. An interesting feature of genus Amanita is that a fruit body harvested while still immature will continue to grow/expand even it it's just laid onto a table. But please note, leaving a specimen of A. persicina out on a tabletop may be viewed as risky, as this type mushroom is likely poisonous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveChap Posted December 8, 2020 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2020 Thank you for the info. I’m just taking pictures and throwing in woods. Taking notes with pictures. I’ll look up how to take a spore print too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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