From: ir@ene.nu   
      
   On 9 Apr 2006 00:00:10 -0700, dwheeler@ipns.com wrote:   
      
   >I'd say it depends on what the Coprinus are growing on.   
   >   
   >If in contact with soil, wait for at least 3 days after the air temp   
   >hits  70 degrees.   
   >   
   >If you are checking old straw bales, however, they could be fruiting   
   >now. Bales have a greater interior temperature through decomposition,   
   >and can generate their own heat source.   
   >   
   >For example, my neighbor has several C. atramentarius (or similar   
   >species) fruiting on a bale of wheat straw right now. Temperature   
   >during the day is up to 60 degrees, night down to 42, rainfall within   
   >last week about .66 inch.   
      
   A Coprinus growing on straw is probably neither atramentarius nor   
   micaceus.   
   But why is fruitings of Coprinus atramentarius interesting? Just   
   curious...   
      
   Irene Andersson   
      
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