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   Dimitar Bojantchev to All   
   Re: Mushroom ID please? Amanita phalloid   
   15 Jan 06 23:35:54   
   
   From: dimitar@pontix.com   
      
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   news:1137394225.532113.142920@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...   
   > Looks pretty much like a Lepiota.  Never seen any Amanita grow in   
   > clusters like that.......Best guess, Lepiota cepaestipes.  Also known   
   > as "Onion-stalked Lepiota".  "Powdery-white cap with radially lined   
   > margin, free gills, and ring on scallion shaped stalk; in clusters."   
   > It also will bruise or discolor at the base to a yellow color.  I noted   
   > this on the photos.   
   > It has a white spore print and will be dextrinoid when Melzer's Reagent   
   > is applied.  If these, they are reported to be poisonous.  By the way,   
   > A. phalloides that I have collected seem to be a greenish color, that   
   > appears to be "metalic"......slp/fmrc   
      
      
   I think you're right -- at first I thought Lepiota-like stature, but   
   couldn't remember seeing a similarly colored one. The veil is not   
   quite Amanita-like, although that I can't quite see the Lepiota   
   collar-like veil as well.   
      
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