Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Mycena leaiana var. australis.jpg

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Original - Mature Mycena leaiana var. australis in Mount Field National Park. The color is a bright orange that fades as the mushroom matures.
Reason
It shows all of the important characteristics for identification apart from the spore print.
Articles in which this image appears
Mycena leaiana
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Other lifeforms/Fungi
Creator
Noodle snacks
Sasata probably has access to the article, since he used it here Amanita vaginata. — raeky (talk | edits) 12:08, 17 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Why doesn't Pileus (mycology) have any real images like this?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 17:46, 17 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    • Probably a good question for the editors at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Fungi, but if I had to venture a guess is the lack of or difficulty of finding good side profiles of all those types. — raeky (talk | edits) 18:10, 17 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      • That is a short article on a technical point which is key for identification; in practice, of course, it's not that simple, meaning photographs are perhaps not overly useful. I don't have access to my mushroom field-guides right now, but I can assure you that in at least two of the three I use, photographs are not used- instead, diagrams similar to ours are the main illustration. In a longer article, there may well be a place, but a longer article would get very technical very quickly; in any case, any photographs used would be of very specific things- macro shots, microscopic shots, artificial shots, shots of specimens in different stages of growth- this is not a picture that could be just casually slipped in in the way you suggest. J Milburn (talk) 00:25, 18 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. I have added mention of the variety in several places in the article, as well as updating the categories. I have also moved this image to share the taxobox, as showing the two different varieties is a great use of multiple taxobox images, in my eyes. J Milburn (talk) 00:25, 18 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Nice one Hive001 contact 11:12, 18 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Definitely. Sasata (talk) 17:03, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Mycena leaiana var. australis.jpg per WP:SNOW --Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 12:27, 25 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]