Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Parasola sp mushroom.jpg

Parasola sp.

Original - 4cm long Parasola sp mushroom. Pictured in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Reason

Good quality, DOF and EV.

Articles this image appears in

Psathyrellaceae, Parasola

Creator

Muhammad

• Support as nominator --Muhammad(talk) 11:15, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
• question could you explain how you came to that genus ID? It doesn't strike me as a dark spored mushroom, and there are lots of little white mushrooms that look like that. Mycena comes to mind. de Bivort 20:51, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
  • I wrote to David W. Fischer of http://AmericanMushrooms.com. I suspected it to be Amanita sp, but he replied, "This appears to be not an Amanita, but a Parasola (this genus was recently split off from Coprinus based on DNA studies)." --Muhammad(talk) 02:56, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
    • This does seem a good source. And I agree with him that it is almost certainly not an amanita. de Bivort 07:34, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
• Support Assuming the id is fine. I've photographed quite a few Mycena species and this one doesn't strike me as particularly close in appearance to them. I'd expect Debivort to know more than I do though. The identifying mycologist looks reasonably reputable however. Noodle snacks (talk) 09:57, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
• Skeptical I'll allow myself to wonder whether the ID and EV would have been improved by photographing from below the cap. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 12:45, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
  • My tripod couldn't go any lower and hand held with flash blew out the fine details --Muhammad(talk) 15:06, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Camera on ground + remote switch? MER-C 04:43, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Focus stack probably wouldn't work quite as well, and the top of the cap wouldn't be seen as well as it is now. --Muhammad(talk) 11:48, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

The underside wouldn't necessarily solve it. Many mushrooms have immature gill colors that are different than their mature colors, and that would be key character here. Parasola has dark spores at maturity, and Mycena has light spores. de Bivort 07:34, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

• Support Good picture. — Aitias // discussion 20:04, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
• neutral technically fine, but the key characters which would make an identification straight forward are not visible, due to the angle and the immaturity of the speciment. Generating highly encyclopedic photos of mushrooms in situ can be nearly impossible when they have a generic appearance from above. In my own mycophotography, I often just topple them over to show the characters at the expense of aesthetics. Of course, those images would have no chance here. de Bivort 07:34, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
  • If it provides any info, the specimen dried out and withered within a few hours --Muhammad(talk) 18:44, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Not promoted No quorum. --wadester16 | Talk→ 18:39, 26 May 2009 (UTC)