My new fungi book suggests that this one is Amanita farinacea. It could be A. ananiceps. In either case, this is a young one, prior to it opening. It will lose the "warts" and become a smooth-topped mushroom. But will it be grey or white - hard to tell now from the photo. Grey=A.ananiceps, white=A. farinacea. Then again it could be A. ochrophylloides, although the warts don't seem right for this last one. It appears that you need to observe the mushroom throughout its evolution.
However, I think this one is fairly obviously Amanita muscaria, or Fly Agaric. This featured in a Mercury story the other day. Here it is at the Fungimap website. I'm working through the species they are targeting to see if I can find any of these ones.
And here's a gratuitous pretty, dying, gumleaf with the sun illuminating it from behind.
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