Wednesday 16 September 2015

Ah, so that's what it is!

On Sunday my post regarded a strange fungi find that I was having trouble identifying, today I passed that way again. Ah, so that's what it is! I thought. Now grown I recognize it straight away. What I was looking at was a Tawny Grisette (Amanita fulva), it's quite distinctive in colour as are the lines around its caps edge. I'd only seen them grown and had no idea that's what they looked like when young. The Tawny Grisette is a common mushroom normally found in mixed woodland, and although being a member of the amanita family, is edible. I must point out that the amanita family contains several deadly members; edible or not, I'd recommend you keep away, nobodies that hungry.  

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