Black Range, NSW
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This is a little like one I posted yesterday but the scales or marks on the cap look like dark hair on a pale skin. About 10 cm across the cap.
2 comments
Pam
wrote:
2 Nov 2020
Excellent photos showing important diagnostic characteristics. The whole mushroom is fleshy, which is typical; the gills are crowded; free, that is they aren't attached to the stipe but have curved into the cap, though very close to the stipe. If they'd been attached to the stipe part of them would have broken away when you snapped the stipe off and thus there wouldn't have been a clean break. The colour, milk chocolate indicates spores are maturing (when immature the gills may be very pale or pink), when mature may be a dark chocolate brown to almost black; the stem (stipe) cleanly separates from the cap as mentioned. The texture of the cap surface is fibrous, ie composed of a dense mass of fibrils (minute hairs or small fibres). Nice looking specimen, hard to say if it's the same as they one you posted yesterday which had a definite indentation on the centre of the cap and splits in the cap surface towards the outer half. There are many Agaricus species in Australia not all have been identified. So unless distinctive feel it's safer just to stick with the genus.
Pam
wrote:
2 Nov 2020
Ooops meant to say cap surface was 'fibrillose' (not fibrous) 'to finely scaly'. Then.. composed of fibrils etc. etc.......
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.849829-36.731374
- Places Black Range, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 1 Nov 2020 04:37 AM Recorded on
- StephH Recorded by
Species information
- Agarics Scientific name
- Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 165.12m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
