Amanita pantherina (panther cap mushroom)

Description:

Summary[edit] Description: English: Amanita pantherina (de Candolle, 1815) - panther cap mushroom. (public display, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Denver, Colorado, USA) Fungi are multicellular, non-photosynthesizing eucaryotes that are not capable of spontaneous movement. They feed on nutrients derived from organic matter in dead and decaying plants, such as wood, or in soil, or from living organisms. Those that feed on decaying wood or dead plant matter in soil are called saprotrophic fungi. Those that feed on living organisms are called parasitic fungi. Those that colonize a plant's roots and derive nutrients from (but not harming) the host plant are called mycorrhizal fungi. Info. from signage at the Denver Museum: "The brown and pale yellow varieties of this poisonous mushroom are topped with white warts. Common in the Rocky Mountain Region, the mycorrhizal mushroom fruits in June through September near ponderosa pine, spruce, and Douglas-fir trees." Classification: Fungi, Basidiomycota, Agaricomycetes, Agaricales, Amanitaceae See a description of the panther cap mushroom at: en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amanita_pantherina_var.. Date: 26 October 2013, 15:15:46. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/47445767@N05/22790140060/. Author: James St. John.