Coker’s Amanita

Coker’s Amanita (Amanita cokeri). A mycorrhizal mushroom, meaning they will share a symbiotic relationship, or mutually beneficial relationship, with hardwoods and conifers. Growing in the soil under the trees that they benefit and receive benefit from. They’ll grow singly or together in groups.

Coker’s Amanitas can be found in eastern US and in the Southeast in particular. Its white cap, which is covered with many pointed bumps, can grow to be six inches across.

I love to find mushrooms in the woods, to capture them in pixels.

This blog gives no information about the edibility or toxicity of any of the mushrooms that are written about.

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Brenda Clements Jones

Brenda is a certified Virginia Master Naturalist, a Habitat Defender for Shenandoah National Park, and a devoted fan of Mother Nature. She lives in a cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Shenandoah National Park, and hikes up to the higher elevations of her mountain often to see what nature is up to. Her constant hiking companion is a camera that captures nature as it unfolds through the seasons. It’s her goal to share the natural world around her through her photographs.