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this amanita (formosa?) was found growing from a chainsawed australian rainforest native
(so sorry i do not knnow the name of it) in the Byron Bay / Ballina region of Northern Rivers NSW.

point is ... cane toads were living under this chunk of colonized log.
do they have a symbiotic effect on ... well ... this :)

I ask this as I have found pans growing from the bamboo burrows where the toads situate themselves.
maybe I'm overthinking it LOL.

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..Toads like humid environments, the same as mushrooms do.

That & the fact that cane toads are fuckin everywhere.. you never know though, perhaps they have a symbiotic effect on the existence of EVERYTHING!

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It looks, yeah, I thought so at first too, but the stipe and the gills are a dead giveaway that its not. Its an interesting and unusual species, Ive never seen anything quite like it.

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Tangich...please explain a little more, I'm missing something. The stype, sure, it's smooth in this specimen not rough like shiitake but the gills look a match to me. This specimen appears to have a viscid cap which shiitake do not.

Basically, please explain how the gills are so vastly different.

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They are too widely spaced and lack the serated nature of Lentinus or Lentinula genera gills. I would love to see detailed pictures and spore prints tough, as I said, this is something very unusual.

Seeing it on a bigger screen, I'm now pretty sure it belongs into Physalacriaceae family.

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∂an, thankyou for that podcast, he's a local guy near me too, will seek him out and pick his brain ;)

Tangich, next time I see one of these I will take a spore print.

thanks heaps again,
very much appreciated.

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