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Observation: Amanita vaginata group (9772)
About Amanita vaginata group
When: 2008-08-17
Collection location: Carnifex Ferry Battlefield State Park, Nicholas Co., West Virginia, USA [Click for map]
Who: Dan Molter (shroomydan)
No herbarium specimen

Notes: A Tawny Grisette emerging from its egg.

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Proposed Name User Community Vote
  shroomydan   -11% (3)  
Recognized by sight
  shroomydan   -33% (3)   Eye3
Recognized by sight: White volva rules out Amanita fulva.
Used references: Laessoe and Lincoff, Smithsonian Handbook.
  shroomydan   12% (2)   Eye3Eyes3
Recognized by sight: Despite the color description “gray to near white”, the photo of a brown emerging A. vaginata on Laesoe and Lincoff pg 153 looks just like this mushroom.
Used references: Laesoe and Lincoff, 153.
  shroomydan   -19% (3)   Eye3
Recognized by sight

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Eye3 = Observer’s choice Eyes3 = Current consensus
Comments: Add Comment

Created: 2009-04-26 16:29:53 WET (+0000)
By: ret
Summary: caution…

Laessoe and Lincoff may be depicting European species, not North American ones. Check to see if the book was translated from another language.

R

Created: 2008-08-25 00:30:46 WEST (+0100)
By: ret
Summary: see 9851

See comment on observation 9851.

Rod

Created: 2008-08-21 19:48:41 WEST (+0100)
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