karode13 said:

Take what you hear and read in the media here about fungi with a grain of salt. The recent reports from police in Western Australia about death caps being found on a forager is total bullshit. Death caps do not occur in Western Australia and no other Amanita species there contains Amatoxins.


But...The person talking about tracking dead roots by observing the fungi growing is quite true.

As a Horticulturist for 20 years it's something I've also learned to do. Often you have trees next door removed but there's now a line of Coprinellus micaceus growing across the lawn of your property. This is probably because the roots from the tree next door have run under this lawn for years. Now that the roots are dead, the mushrooms have taken hold of the dead wood and colonised it. The flush of mushroom on the lawn are from the now dead roots below.

To fix this problem(some people view mushrooms as problems) you need to remove the dead roots below the lawn. Otherwise they will just return.


Mycorrhizal mushrooms are different to decomposers.

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ellamush said:

Nice face and/or boobies

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OOISI said:

ellamush said:

Nice face and/or boobies

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Clearly boobies.

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