… does anyone recognize these peculiar shrooms I encountered today? The look like little white Christmas trees.
At least I assume they’re mushrooms. Xenomorph eggs? White chocolate confections?
by Anonymous | reply 1 | June 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 Anonymous | reply 2 | June 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 Anonymous | reply 3 | June 12, 2021 7:37 PM |
Thanks R3 — googled and other images lead me to suspect it’s maybe a shaggy cap mushroom?
by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 12, 2021 7:44 PM |
Reverse image search returns different mushrooms disease pictures, I think the kind you found are sick ones.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | June 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 Anonymous | reply 6 | June 12, 2021 7:55 PM |
OP, can I have your stuff?
by Anonymous | reply 7 | June 12, 2021 8:35 PM |
Someone on DL is actually married to a mycologist, if I remember correctly. Is that you, r6?
by Anonymous | reply 8 | June 12, 2021 8:39 PM |
There’s a fungus among us.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | June 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.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | June 12, 2021 9:05 PM |
I was gonna say a Parasol , perhaps Ink Cap …but one of them looks like an Amanita…..different varieties do grow together
by Anonymous | reply 12 | June 14, 2021 8:48 PM |
Still looks like ink caps to me.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | June 14, 2021 8:50 PM |
Do poisonous mushrooms really kill you? Or do they only make you sick?
by Anonymous | reply 14 | June 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 Anonymous | reply 15 | June 14, 2021 8:57 PM |
*catch Not miss
by Anonymous | reply 16 | June 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 Anonymous | reply 17 | June 14, 2021 9:11 PM |
R17, they’re growing under your bed.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | June 14, 2021 9:21 PM |
Looks like hoosband's peenis, but hees peenis not so big as mushroom.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | June 14, 2021 9:28 PM |
These are nowhere near as toxic, Vairst. Although that’s not a matter of concern for you anymore.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | June 14, 2021 9:43 PM |