We had a lot of rain in June and early July, and the pile of wood chips hosted quite the convention of mushrooms. But one day when I walked over to check them out, I noticed that many of them seemed to be wearing "hats" atop their caps.
iNaturalist came to the rescue and identified the brain-like growth as another fungus, a parasite called Collybia Clouds (Syzygospora mycetophila).
iNaturalist came to the rescue and identified the brain-like growth as another fungus, a parasite called Collybia Clouds (Syzygospora mycetophila).
I wondered: did it grow beneath the mushroom cap as well?
So I looked.
Yep!
And then I found one of the collybia clouds all by itself... I guess it had finished off its host mushroom. A week later I checked the chip pile and all was gone!
With mushrooms, you've got to be looking when they fruit!
What cool fungi will you find this week?
Puts the mush in mushroom...
ReplyDeletefunny! but true...
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