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Mystery Mushroom Fruiting From Kitchen Counter Backsplash. Please Help
    #14568767 - 06/06/11 10:20 AM (12 years, 7 months ago)

Hi Shroomery, I was hoping you could advise me with an issue in our kitchen. Whenever we do dishes the back splash gets all wet and sometimes we forget to wipe it down afterward. This has resulted in bowing of the backsplash and the germination of mushroom spores. As you can see from the pics below, there are mushrooms fruiting from under the backsplash.



My question is: what should we do about this? The current plan is to pry the backsplash off and scrub the dry wall with bleach to kill the mycelium. What do you guys think? Will this do the trick or will some mycelium be within the wall, out of reach of the bleach?

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Re: Mystery Mushroom Fruiting From Kitchen Counter Backsplash. Please Help [Re: Capers]
    #14568818 - 06/06/11 10:37 AM (12 years, 7 months ago)

Take the back splash down, look behind the wall prolly have a leak, behind there, prolly more mycelium also.


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Re: Mystery Mushroom Fruiting From Kitchen Counter Backsplash. Please Help [Re: 2jew4u]
    #14572826 - 06/07/11 03:42 AM (12 years, 7 months ago)

I would dismantle that particular part of the kitchen, as it appears you have a pretty serious humidity/leakage problem. You're going to find quite a bit of rotting wood, and it may be less superficial than it seems, given the number of mushrooms that is popping up.

Btw, that's an interesting species, I don't recognize it off the bat. Usually, when there are mushrooms in kitchens or bathrooms, they're psathyrella species. But this is definitely not that. Perhaps a melanoleuca species? If you want to find out what they are, put up an ID request in the Hunting section, I'm sure someone will recognize it there. I'm sort of curious myself, so I'd be looking forward to that ID request.


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Re: Mystery Mushroom Fruiting From Kitchen Counter Backsplash. Please Help [Re: Capers]
    #14573822 - 06/07/11 10:57 AM (12 years, 7 months ago)

Gross.


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Re: Mystery Mushroom Fruiting From Kitchen Counter Backsplash. Please Help [Re: ChuangTzu]
    #14573838 - 06/07/11 11:02 AM (12 years, 7 months ago)

I think the species is...

Xerula megalospora

It's a rotting/dead wood lover...I have some in my yard...here a few more pics of them... (their also in that thread I just linked)



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Re: Mystery Mushroom Fruiting From Kitchen Counter Backsplash. Please Help [Re: TranscendingLife]
    #14573940 - 06/07/11 11:24 AM (12 years, 7 months ago)

Shoot some Ps. cyan back there lol.  But no you really should take down the back spash, do it with a mask and gloves on, have your kids out of the house, and your Ac off-  That way if there is any spore release not a big deal- would be more worried about Black mold :frown:


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Re: Mystery Mushroom Fruiting From Kitchen Counter Backsplash. Please Help [Re: TranscendingLife]
    #14574127 - 06/07/11 12:02 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

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todlow said:
I think the species is...

Xerula megalospora




Xerula :facepalm3: Of course. Good call!


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Re: Mystery Mushroom Fruiting From Kitchen Counter Backsplash. Please Help [Re: koraks]
    #14574151 - 06/07/11 12:07 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

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koraks said:
Quote:

todlow said:
I think the species is...

Xerula megalospora




Xerula :facepalm3: Of course. Good call!




:lol:

the only reason know is cuz I found a few in my yard & Alan Rockefeller was nice enough to ID it...


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Re: Mystery Mushroom Fruiting From Kitchen Counter Backsplash. Please Help [Re: TranscendingLife]
    #14574154 - 06/07/11 12:07 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

It's as good a way to learn as any :thumbup:


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Re: Mystery Mushroom Fruiting From Kitchen Counter Backsplash. Please Help [Re: koraks]
    #14574177 - 06/07/11 12:15 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

@koraks; I could have swore you were a trusted identifier last week:shrug:am I mistaken? did you say something they didn't like?


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Re: Mystery Mushroom Fruiting From Kitchen Counter Backsplash. Please Help [Re: SomeGuy]
    #14574483 - 06/07/11 01:28 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

Nah man, the badge only displays in the Hunting & Identification section. I've always found this a good thing about that TI badge. Otherwise I'd probably rather have done without.


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Re: Mystery Mushroom Fruiting From Kitchen Counter Backsplash. Please Help [Re: koraks]
    #14574491 - 06/07/11 01:29 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

oh, really? I didn't know that, thanks for the info


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Re: Mystery Mushroom Fruiting From Kitchen Counter Backsplash. Please Help [Re: SomeGuy]
    #14575674 - 06/07/11 05:43 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

:seeya:

dood you have mushrooms in your kitchen! why cant something delicious sneak up on you like that. goddamnit@


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