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I know this is not a mycological forum, but …

… does anyone recognize these peculiar shrooms I encountered today? The look like little white Christmas trees.

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by Anonymousreply 20June 14, 2021 9:43 PM

At least I assume they’re mushrooms. Xenomorph eggs? White chocolate confections?

by Anonymousreply 1June 12, 2021 7:33 PM

Before I can tell you what kind of mushroom you’ve found, I need to know if it’s poisonous.

Eat one.

by Anonymousreply 2June 12, 2021 7:33 PM

Looks like an Ink Cap mushroom, could also possibly be an Amanita. It doesn’t look mature and so it’s hard to do a visual identification.

by Anonymousreply 3June 12, 2021 7:37 PM

Thanks R3 — googled and other images lead me to suspect it’s maybe a shaggy cap mushroom?

by Anonymousreply 4June 12, 2021 7:44 PM

Reverse image search returns different mushrooms disease pictures, I think the kind you found are sick ones.

by Anonymousreply 5June 12, 2021 7:48 PM

Rather than not looking mature, they are late in their cycle and look like Coprinus comatus, an edible mushroom R3 identified, but we call them shaggy manes rather than "ink caps."

People sometimes confuse them with parasol mushrooms, Macrolepiota procera, but those often are larger (and delicious, too). The shaggy manes also sometimes are misidentified when people see (and eat) a group of Chlorophyllum rhacodes, the shaggy parasol. The latter does make some people ill, but less so when they're cooked, and they're not poisonous to the extent that old stories tell.

Shapes can vary with most of these shaggy-capped mushrooms, so it's best to know your region.

by Anonymousreply 6June 12, 2021 7:55 PM

OP, can I have your stuff?

by Anonymousreply 7June 12, 2021 8:35 PM

Someone on DL is actually married to a mycologist, if I remember correctly. Is that you, r6?

by Anonymousreply 8June 12, 2021 8:39 PM

There’s a fungus among us.

by Anonymousreply 9June 12, 2021 8:49 PM

I met some mycologists on a local hiking trail, and they gave me a taste of the Candy Cap mushroom they'd found - which is sweet and tastes rather like maple syrup. I lived, and I've seen Candy Cap desserts on a couple of local dessert menus.

Of course the mushroom nerds warned me against picking wild mushrooms unless I was a real expert, there are Death Cap mushrooms around here and they look like a lot of other species at various stages of their life cycles. I took their advice.

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by Anonymousreply 10June 12, 2021 9:05 PM

Developments….

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by Anonymousreply 11June 14, 2021 8:42 PM

I was gonna say a Parasol , perhaps Ink Cap …but one of them looks like an Amanita…..different varieties do grow together

by Anonymousreply 12June 14, 2021 8:48 PM

Still looks like ink caps to me.

by Anonymousreply 13June 14, 2021 8:50 PM

Do poisonous mushrooms really kill you? Or do they only make you sick?

by Anonymousreply 14June 14, 2021 8:54 PM

Most will only make you sick but a good number will kill you a dead as a door nail. It’s actually a really good way to kill poison someone as few toxicologists would miss the rarer ones.

by Anonymousreply 15June 14, 2021 8:57 PM

*catch Not miss

by Anonymousreply 16June 14, 2021 8:57 PM

Whatever it is, it looks disgusting. I thought they were birds that had broken apart at first.

Looks disgusting.

by Anonymousreply 17June 14, 2021 9:11 PM

R17, they’re growing under your bed.

by Anonymousreply 18June 14, 2021 9:21 PM

Looks like hoosband's peenis, but hees peenis not so big as mushroom.

by Anonymousreply 19June 14, 2021 9:28 PM

These are nowhere near as toxic, Vairst. Although that’s not a matter of concern for you anymore.

by Anonymousreply 20June 14, 2021 9:43 PM
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