From: WhatThe@huuhh.com
On Tue, 9 May 2006 19:13:27 -0500, "Kurt"
wrote:
>Shaggy manes (coprinus comatus) from the looks.
>Kurt
Nah, not shaggy manes. Definitly Coprinus though.
M
>
>"OmManiPadmeOmelet" wrote in message
>news:Omelet-E9116A.14394409052006@news.giganews.com...
>> I've had large patches of these come up in the same spot a few times per
>> year after heavy rains for the past 3 or 4 years now. They appear to be
>> growing from underground rotting post oak wood. I feel a bit guilty as
>> the stump was finally well rotted enough, we were able to dig most of it
>> out. We got tired of tripping over it.
>>
>> As a result, this teensy little patch was all that came up this time
>> instead of the usual spread of several clusters over about a 2 ft.
>> square area. I think they are cute so am considering burying a
>> few older fallen oak branches in the same area to "feed" them...
>>
>> Anyway, I tried keying them out last year using my Audubon guide and I
>> think they keyed out as an edible but I don't remember what I think they
>> were, and I'm not experienced enough to take chances. I'm understandably
>> cautious about wild mushrooms unless it's something distinctive enough
>> for me to recognize like Morels, lions manes or shaggy caps, or even
>> giant puffballs.
>>
>> Anyone know what these might be? I live in South central Texas in the
>> Austin/San Antonio area:
>>
>> http://tinypic.com/xm66mu.jpg
>> http://tinypic.com/xm67n4.jpg
>> http://tinypic.com/xm6895.jpg
>>
>> I tool these pics early yesterday morning and the mushrooms were pretty
>> well dead and disintigrating already this morning. The spores I got from
>> the one I picked appeared to be a very dark gray, almost but not quite
>> black.
>>
>> TIA!
>> --
>> Peace!
>> Om
>>
>> "My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a bitch"
>> -- Jack Nicholson
>
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