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   "Dimitar Bojantchev"  wrote in message   
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   >> Thanks!   
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   >> I took that picture as I passed it on the way up the mountain.  On the   
   >> way back   
   >> down I picked it but by then it had flattened out on the top and was no   
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   >> dome or button shaped.   
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   > The Amanita is not pantherina, but looks very much like Amanita   
   > muscaria var. formosa.  I found a very similar ones this last weekend   
   > in Sierra Nevada. Will post pictures soon.   
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   > The first one is Gomphus floccosus/bonarii (hard to say). Then you   
   > have something very similar to B. edulis.   
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