Golden Mushroom
Height, ~60mm
Adelaide Hills
Golden Mushroom
Starting to age, profile
 
                      
Golden Mushroom (Amanita sp)Class: Fungi (Fungi) - Basidio (Basidiomycota) - Mushroom-forming Fungi (Agaricomycetes)
Order: Gilled Fungi (Agaricales)
Family: Mushroom (Amanitaceae)
Species: Golden Mushroom (Amanita sp)
This Photo:     Starting to age, above
Other name: Satin Mushroom

EXTRA - Photo Specific Information:
The younger one to the right, didn't split.
General Species Information:
Found in the Adelaide Hills and possibly elsewhere
This species is in the Grisella Group
According to fia-3-basidio-agarico-I.pdf
"The species in this group are difficult to separate using macroscopic features"
We were able to monitor this specimen daily to record it's rapid growth, as well as see the earlier stages of the one next to it once the first was found.
As such, the photo's are in chronological order.
Unusually (compared to other mushrooms we've found), this one wasn't eaten by springtails. So many other species we saw one day and were gone the next.

Copyright © 2016-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 20-Oct-2016
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.