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The one in the center of your first pic does not seem to be a lobster. Russula sp. and Lactarius sp. seem to be a favored host, but they do have other hosts too. I am unaware of poisonings but if you do eat it, try a small sample first.
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Photos are from 9/7/19. I was going through my notes and noticed I had neglected to look this mushroom up. There was no spore print taken due to age. I did not taste either for the same reason. Smelled like earthy mushroom. It was growing from decaying wood of unrecognized type. Mixed conifer and aspen forest. The caps have raised black small tufts. Seems like we got our rains 2/3 the way through these mushrooms growth and split the caps.
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Since it will be weeks before I can go hunting again in the forest I decided to try and find stuff here in the desert.
I am making a tentative ID of Tulostoma simulans. Since I do not have a microscope I cannot look at the spores.
We just received several days of rain so this is the fungi’s only real chance to sporulate for the year here.
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Was this a solitary mushroom? Does the stipe act like string cheese?
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Brown spore print supports Agaricus proposal. Lack of a volva suggests not Aminita.
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L. insigne possibly, but the slight blue staining from the cap and the brown staining stipe are odd.
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Howdy. I wish there was an active mushroom club down here in southern New Mexico. Luckily I have a trooper of a wife!
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Awesome, but black is the worst color down here in sun city. I want one!
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Drilling and inoculating an old log won’t work as the log already has established colonies of fungus typically. These may have been old holes that were easy to grow out from.
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Spawn plugs are sold for chickens.
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I find it unethical to do this on public land unless the tree is already dead/dying.
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I agree with the foil recommendation. It does not matter what color the spores are, they will be seen on foil. Also it will not wick water and/or color onto the print possibly giving a false color.
The image without the cap was barely visible to my eye, but the camera picked up on stuff I couldn’t see.
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I agree, it looks like a species of oyster.
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Taste, smell, spore print color, milk when gills are sliced should be looked for. Does the stipe snap like a chaulk stick?
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It appears to be Coprinus comatus, but I don’t know it’s range. You are in Europe, correct? Were older specimens melting from the bottom of the cap working upwards with the goo turning blue/black?
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Then you found a different mushroom, possible a toxic one.
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Great photos. I find that age is my X factor when determining many shrooms.
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Yes there were conifers are, including hemlock. Thanks for the help.
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I usually try to pick out one LBM on my hunts to try and learn. These were quite numerous and were pretty to me. It had a chocolate brown spore print. Smelled and tasted like an earthy mushroom. No bruising. No veil noted. The lack of staining rules out P. cyanescens. As shown the older caps turn up similar to Russula species.
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More info is needed. Staining and spore prints would be helpful. Smell/taste?
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Where are you located? Agaricus of some type.
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Any staining noticed, blue or brown? It appears to have had a veil by what looks like a veil scar around the stipe and possible veil bits on the cap.
I am leaning towards Suillus of some sort, especially with the slimy cap.
Found in Chilliwack, BC
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Did you happen to do a smell/taste test, or a spore print? First mushrooms look like shaggy parasol, Lepiota rachodes. Did the tissue stain orange-red when cut?