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by bluntfang 3253 days ago
chanterelles look nothing like an amanita :\
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Yeah, that was my thought too. But I do have something growing in my back yard (in the fall) that is fairly similar to yellow chanterelle - probably jack-o-lantern. The gills are wrong, but I'd imagine that software to identify mushrooms from photos would miss that subtlety.
Sure that example is extreme, but the deadly amanitas do look like puffballs when young.