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Observation: Amanita sp. (section Caesareae) (51881)
About Amanita (section Caesareae)
When: 2010-08-24
Collection location: Big Branch, Saint Tammany Parish, Louisiana, USA [Click for map]
Who: Chaz (tripper1445)
No herbarium specimen
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  nlsegraves   72% (1)  
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  ret   80% (1)   Eyes3
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Created: 2010-09-03 01:30:16 WET (+0000)
By: ret
Summary: You’re welcome

You’re more than welcome. I enjoyed the conversation.

Very best,

Rod


Created: 2010-09-02 23:09:01 WET (+0000)
By: Chaz (tripper1445)
Summary: The diameter is around 4 1/2 inches.

This shot was taken a little while back but I have another one out there now. It’s on the other side of life but if there is something I can glean from it for you I will certainly try. Thanks for the information the other day, by the way.

98127

Created: 2010-09-02 22:51:55 WET (+0000)
By: ret
Summary: Can you give us a feeling for the diameter of the cap (for example)?

It looks like the stem is totally elongating (no bulb) and has both a somewhat graying, skirt-like annulus, and a proportionately small saccate volva. The cap is basically brown and even with the cap fully expanded, the marginal striations are not very long. The species should belong in Amanita section Caesarea. A good possibility might be A. spreta…or something similar. Amanita murrilliana (with somewhat similar cap coloring) is not known to have a graying annulus.

Very best,

R.



Created: 2010-09-02 06:23:36 WET (+0000)
Last modified: 2010-09-02 22:52:39 WET (+0000)
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