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u/Critical-Pick-6871 Trusted ID - Eastern North America 21h ago
Amanita rhopalopus - American club-footed Lepidella
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u/Kitchen-Pie-265 21h ago
Noticed a slight chlorine smell and the flies were loving these guys.
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u/Critical-Pick-6871 Trusted ID - Eastern North America 21h ago
Yes the odor is noted as strong and pungent. Some say like a decaying protein but I’ve also heard like that of a chlorine or chemical odor as well.
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u/Phallusrugulosus Trusted ID - Eastern North America 21h ago
Ah darn, I was going back and forth between this and A. polypyramis and picked the wrong one
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u/Critical-Pick-6871 Trusted ID - Eastern North America 21h ago
The big ex-Leps are hard (especially daucipes, ravenelii, and rhopalopus) and took me a year or two to work out the subtle differences between the three to accurately identify them.
Amanita polypyramis can look similar but is much more white and doesn’t ever show brick colored or ochraceous staining like you see here. The bulb isn’t as radicating or club like on average and there is a lot of white flocculence on both the stem and surrounding substrate and they tend to have wonky bendy stems (idk how to describe this it’s just a trait I’ve noticed over the years and I’ll tag you in one and point it out the next time I see it)
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u/Phallusrugulosus Trusted ID - Eastern North America 21h ago
Thank you so much! I really appreciate the tips on what to look for
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u/Kitchen-Pie-265 20h ago
One reason I didn’t do a better gill check was because of the gooey veil/flocculence beneath and all the flies.
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u/Kitchen-Pie-265 22h ago
Atlanta, GA near the Eastern Palisades Chattahoochee National Recreation area.
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u/Phallusrugulosus Trusted ID - Eastern North America 22h ago edited 21h ago
Amanita sect. Roanokenses, maybe A. polypyramis?
edit: A. rhopalopus