Quick Growers.
Nature Notes.
By
James Drummond,
F.L.S., F.Z.S.
THE RAPID GROWTH of a brilliant species of fungus, belonging to the family of the mushrooms and the toadstools, was noted by Miss L. N. Robson, of Pirongia, Waikato. A group of the flyagaric, deep red, picked out with white buttons, on top, a delicate cream colour beneath, growing at the foot of a Pinus insignis tree, attracted her attention She took them home and placed them in a bowl of water. The following morning, all had grown amazingly. The largest was twenty-one inches and a half in circumference. Rapid growth in the fungi is common. Early writers may have exaggerated this peculiarity, but in England recently a field mushroom was thirty inches in circumference; another was thirty-three inches and a quarter; .another thirty-six inches and a half. A common mushroom found in a quarry near Paris in 1846 and presented to King Louis Philippe had a circumference of forty-three inches; one that grew at Ingoldisthorpe, Norfolk, was forty-seven inches and a half. The record is held by a mushroom found by a farmer in the woods near Chateau Roux. France, with a circumberence of four feet.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20279, 13 April 1934, Page 6
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