Amanita pachycolea

Photographer

Nathan Wilson

Location

Central coastal California mixed fir, madrone, tan oak woodlands

Time

Early 1993

Habitat

Mixed woods

Comments

This large member of Amanita section Vaginatae is found fairly commonly in California. Like the other members of its section it is edible, though I have never particularly enjoyed it.

Processing

Original image was taken on 35mm Fuji Velvia using a Nikon 55mm macro lens. The image was scanned on a Power Mac 8100/100 using a Microtek ScanMaker 35t slide scanner and Adobe Photoshop.

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