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Captain_Cap
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Good or bad for houseplants? How to eliminate??
#26487061 - 02/15/20 01:04 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Discovered these little guys in my girlfriends houseplant, are they good or bad for the plant? Can they be eradicated if harmful? And how?
Thank you all so much for your help
Habitat: Bay Area California, terra cotta potted philodendron(houseplant) top soil, inside a mini terrarium for higher humidity.
Gills: white, attached, gills
Stem: 2.5” thin off white stem
Cap: 1.5” diameter, off white, small faint/brownish flakes on top? Kinda nipple like
Spore print color: Not yet printed
Bruising: Not noticed
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zoidbergo
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Re: Good or bad for houseplants? How to eliminate?? [Re: Captain_Cap]
#26487079 - 02/15/20 01:17 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Looks like a Lepiota of some kind. It won't hurt your plant, and might even be good for the health of the soil.
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HSapiensAmericanus
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Re: Good or bad for houseplants? How to eliminate?? [Re: zoidbergo]
#26487158 - 02/15/20 02:15 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Looks like Leucocoprinus cretaceus. Common potted plant inhabiter along with other Leucocoprinus species. Does no harm to the plants. Just pick them and discard before they drop spores. Or leave them and let them do their natural thing.
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I wish i could get mushrooms colonizing my potted plants, consider yourself lucky!!
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Captain_Cap
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ok Thank you guys, I will let them do their thing than, no risk of it overcrowding the roots?
Also, I should have noted that when I saw them last night, the caps were smooth and more upright oval than round, the photos of the mentioned Leucocoprinus cretaceus look a lot more irregular than smooth surface in the cap and stem?
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Re: Good or bad for houseplants? How to eliminate?? [Re: Captain_Cap]
#26487363 - 02/15/20 04:58 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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There's so many threads with Leucocoprinus in house plants right now.
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Re: Good or bad for houseplants? How to eliminate?? [Re: Captain_Cap]
#26487454 - 02/15/20 06:10 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Captain_Cap said: ok Thank you guys, I will let them do their thing than, no risk of it overcrowding the roots?
Also, I should have noted that when I saw them last night, the caps were smooth and more upright oval than round, the photos of the mentioned Leucocoprinus cretaceus look a lot more irregular than smooth surface in the cap and stem?
Never heard of them overcrowding root systems. Essentially the mycelium has already colonized the substrate and anything you do to try to get rid of them is likely to do more harm to the plant. The plant and the fungus has created a happy homeostasis.
There are a few other white Leucocoprinus that look alike and there are a few Leucocoprinus that I know fruit in potted plants. The only combination of those two traits, white and indoor, that I’m aware of is L. cretaceus. But of course it’s possible it could be something else.
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parasola?
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HSapiensAmericanus said: There are a few other white Leucocoprinus that look alike and there are a few Leucocoprinus that I know fruit in potted plants. The only combination of those two traits, white and indoor, that I’m aware of is L. cretaceus. But of course it’s possible it could be something else.
I became aware of another...
The only combination of those two traits, white and indoor, that I’m aware of is Lc. cretaceus... OR... Lc. ianthinus.
There are some good descriptions in here. https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mtax/mt/2010/00000112/00000001/art00013?crawler=true The genus Leucocoprinus in western Washington MYCOTAXON; Volume 112, pp. 83–102, April–June 2010
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Re: Good or bad for houseplants? How to eliminate?? [Re: Captain_Cap]
#26489377 - 02/17/20 03:28 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Captain_Cap said: ok Thank you guys, I will let them do their thing than, no risk of it overcrowding the roots?
Completely harmless. Sometimes they reappear when conditions are right, but I've never had them persist over several seasons as a typical houseplant pot is a suboptimal place for them to thrive in the long term. I.e. they'll likely go away by themselves anyway.
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