DV - 03JUL10 - 1016 :: pizza mushroom

[Dinesh Valke]

Dear friends,
... mushroom for ID please.

Date/Time : July 3, 2010 at 10.16am IST
Location Place : near Lion's Point, Lonavala
Altitude : about 762 m (above mean sea level)
GPS :  18°41'56.00"N, 73°23'12.79"E

Habitat : wild, damp forest floor
Type : deciduous forest

Habit : mushroom
Height : about 12 - 15 inches
Size : diameter 10 inches



Regards.

[raghu ananth]

Dinesh ji,

 

Lovely pictures, mushrooms growing upto 12-15" itself is amazing, I am yet to see such a large mushroom.

clear cap shot, nice habitat.

 

I am really missing the monsoon magic in the Western ghats

 

TFS /Regards

 

Raghu

Chennai

 

 

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[tanay bose]

Ahh Haa !! This is Macrolepiota procera famous for its extra ordinary large size !!!

See from the link for more : http://www.mushroomexpert.com/macrolepiota_procera.html

Tanay

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[nabha meghani]

Hallo,

I missed the original mail somehow.  Macrolepiota procera is called parasol mushroom, really one can see big parasol mushrooms, and they taste very good. The yound mushrooms are edible, but only the cap. The stem is not so good, it is hard.

Regards

Nalini

[kiran srivastava]

The first photo is superbly captured! The mushroom stands out stark in that patch of misty green. I saw my first microlepiota procera which was like a small dinner plate in the national park here and marvelled at its size.

The Boletus mushroom perhaps matches its size except that its stem is much thicker.

Cheers,

Kiran Srivastava

Mumbai

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[tanay bose]

This not Boletus sp because...............
1. Boletus species don't have gills they have pores technically known as hymenophores (this mushroom has gills).
2. The stipe is clavate at the base which is absent in this mushroom.

Tanay