![]() They were club-shaped, tough and fibrous with bent-back scales and striations that curved around the stipe like stripes on a candy cane. The stipes (stems) of the mushrooms were cream to buff measuring 30-45 cm (12-18 in) in length (Figure 3). titans mushrooms in Athens, Ga., in October 2012. The spore print, which was obtained by placing a cap on half white and half dark-colored paper and covering it with a bowl overnight, was creamy white (spore prints are necessary for proper mushroom species identification).įig. The smooth, dry surfaces of the caps were cinnamon-buff in color at the crowns fading to cream toward the margins. Younger mushrooms (Figure 2) had more convex caps than those of older specimens that became flattened with age. ![]() Single caps were 20-30 cm (8-12 in) across and convex with incurving at the margin. The large, cream to buff-colored mushrooms were found growing in three large, dense clusters of eight to 10 mushrooms each (Figure 1). titans based on morphological features, habitat where it was found and DNA sequence similarity with known specimens. ![]() The mushrooms were discovered in October 2012 in the yard of an abandoned house in Athens. To our knowledge, this is the first report in Georgia. Confirmation of this species in Georgia now extends the previously known range of M. These giant mushrooms often occur in clusters within the tropics and subtropics of the New World, with previous sightings reported in the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico, South America, and only in Florida within the USA. Macrocybe titans is the largest gilled mushroom of any species in the Western Hemisphere, with caps in excess of 100 cm (3 ft). An adult-size baseball cap was placed in the background for scale.
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