svs Posted October 14, 2018 Report Share Posted October 14, 2018 Is this an Old man? Found in NJ pine barrens. Covered with sand underneath. There are still plenty of conventionally looking old man around. This one has pine cone looking structure on the top. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1shotwade Posted October 14, 2018 Report Share Posted October 14, 2018 not like any I have seen! Wade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt McDermott Posted October 14, 2018 Report Share Posted October 14, 2018 Weird, never saw anything like that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CajunShroomer3578 Posted October 15, 2018 Report Share Posted October 15, 2018 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave W Posted October 18, 2018 Report Share Posted October 18, 2018 The sandy terrain of the Pine Barrens can cause a mushroom to not develop normally, especially if the mushroom is partially buried in the sand. So maybe this is just an atypical example of S. stobilaceus (aka. S. floccopus). But the Pine Barrens is known to get species of mushrooms that are not expected at the same latitude. So this could be a southern species of Strobilomyces that I'm not very familiar with. But it does look like a Strobilomyces, albeit old and weathered, possibly moldy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svs Posted October 18, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2018 Thank you everybody for input Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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