I’ve got a couple of clusters of this showing up in my squarefoot gardens. It looks like wood ear but isn’t growing on the wood edges, but in the soil.
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Maybe cup fungi?
Or a buried piece of wood?
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I’ve got lots of these cup fungi coming up all around and on the edges of my wine cap mushroom bed…
Please tell me this doesn’t mean I did all that work on the larger of two beds I made to raise wine caps. Any chance the wine caps and cup fungi can co-exist?
Scott
wine cap mycelium is much more aggressive than most other fungi. wine caps will out compete them. only other mushroom probably more aggressive is oysters.
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I’m very glad to hear that as I made two mushroom beds with this one being the larger of the two. Its 12’ x 20’ and at least 4 inches deep (so I moved a ton of fresh wood chips to make this).
Scott
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seconding what moose said, unless the stropharia was grossly under-seeded it is extremely aggressive in chips
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how much mycelium did you ad to that bed? one that size would need 5-6 big bags of spawn. what i did is make a 4’ x 5’ bed about 6in. deep with 1 spawn bag in spring. by the fall that beds chips were completely colonized. i then put those chips into bigger beds. basically growing out your spawn to be used to inoc. a bigger amount of beds. it takes time but saves you a lot in spawn.
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That’s basically what I did. If I dig down I have lots of white just under the surface.
Scott
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Remember about spore prints to guys. Think we discussed it here Anyone finding fall mushrooms?
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Looks like chicken of the woods but I am by no means a mushroom expert. Nice find
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It does look like a chicken, the color is a little dull though so maybe it is a Berkeley’s polypore.
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Yes definitely some sort of reishi, probably lucidum.
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Is this a type of puffball and is it edible? I found it growing out of the ground next to one of my fig pots.
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Looks like one, if white inside they are good cooked.
I’m on the other side of the country though, what we eat may not be the same mushroom.
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Just googled
The small, yellow mushroom is probably Leucocoprinus birnbaumii. The fungus is sometimes referred to as yellow houseplant mushroom , yellow parasol, or flower pot parasol. This species can be found outside in summer, but is most commonly found year-round with potted plants or in greenhouses.
Is Leucocoprinus Birnbaumii poisonous?
Toxicity . Leucocoprinus birnbaumii is known to be a toxic toadstool, and if eaten it can cause a very unpleasant stomach upset.
puffball sliced edible
Earthball sliced inedible
Deathcap/Destroying Angle Deadly in the Egg stage sliced. Notice the shape of a capped mushroom is present in the egg stage.
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Beautiful peeling job on that puffball!
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