Created: 2008-12-01 13:02:15
By: debbie viess (amanitarita)
Summary: but amanitas do grow from roots, just not usually from exposed ones!

last year I found the most curious fruit bodies on the exposed roots of a downed tanoak…they were round and areolate, almost puff-ball like in appearance. i took one home, and waited, and waited, and surprise! it hatched into a coccora.

Created: 2008-12-01 11:10:12
By: Dan Molter (shroomydan)
Summary: Stange for an Amanita

I agree, the conjunction of white gills and striate margin screams Amanita.

I found this mushroom growing from a large above-ground root of a tree in a pine plantation. The mushroom was growing out of a crack in the wood. I have never seen a grisette or any other Amanita growing directly from wood.

This observation is not as complete as I would like. The remnants of a hurricane blew in as soon as I found the mushroom. It got dark very quickly, so I had difficulty getting a good shot. The pine trees were whipping around like tall grass in a windswept field, and branches were falling all around me. I only had time for the two snap shots here before I decided to run for cover.

Something to look for next year eh.

Created: 2008-11-28 01:51:37
By: (DannyGlick)
Summary: Fine hairs on the cap? Spore print it?

The margin does appear to be lined in your speciman, so I doubt Volvariella taylorii.I do doubt that you would confuse Amanita vaginata for a Volvariella though.

Created: 2008-11-26 17:28:23
By: debbie viess (amanitarita)
Summary: it’s exciting to think that this may be a volvariella…

but I have to say that I agree with Darv. Other than growth habit, it has the dry, grayish striated cap of a grisette, with a long cupule of a volva and the red-orange staining is common too…

altho unusual to see, these mushrooms do originate from the roots, and sometimes
those roots are pretty close to the surface.

I’ve never seen a wood-dwelling volvariella, but I would love to, too.

Created: 2008-11-26 13:14:22
By: Darvin DeShazer (darv)
Summary: Amanita

Looks like an Amanita with whitish gills. Only one Volvariella is known to grow from wood and it’s from hardwoods, not Pine.

Created: 2008-09-19 01:05:22
By: Daniel B. Wheeler (Tuberale)
Summary: Volvariella

Only know 2 species: V. volvaceae and V. bombycina. Need to look at it again with books in hand.