These iconic and beautiful mushrooms were found near a large coniferous tree in my neighbour’s front yard. They grew on the ground surrounded by dead leaves.
The mushroom’s cap ranges from convex to pulvinate depending on the stage of development. The margin is entire, and the cap surface is warty and bright red. It has partial veil features such as a ring around the stem that appears to be subperonate. The gills are white, free, and closely spaced. The breadth of the gills is difficult to tell, but I think they might be broad with even edges. The stem is central, terete and equal with a fibrous surface. Any bulbs and volvas are not visible since I didn’t dig up the mushroom.
Every mushroom guide I’ve seen lists this mushroom as Amanita muscaria, and it certainly looks exactly like one.
