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OfflineMia
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help identifying a spiny stemmed mushroom!
    #5653507 - 05/20/06 02:24 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Hi everyone! Can anyone help me figure out what these are? I've never seen a mushroom with a spiny stem like this before. I came across them when I was moving a really large rock pile out of my parents' yard in Connecticut. When I got down to the bottom, in a crevice were these beautiful, dark-grey stalked mushrooms growing on a rotting stick that had been buried beneath 3 feet of rocks for a couple years! We're talking zero sunlight. The caps are coffee-colored with a white ring at the rim. The gills are white and free. Stem is hollow. The stalks are dark, smoky grey with long, soft white spines growing from the base. Each of these mushrooms was under 3 inches long.
Can anyone guess? I don't have any of my guides with me since I'm away from home right now!

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Re: help identifying a spiny stemmed mushroom! [Re: Mia]
    #5653520 - 05/20/06 02:27 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Dunno what it is but I will say it looks oh so cool!
Kinda diggin the spiked mycelium growth.
Mist it don't dunk it....Set it in a nice spot and watch what it does...


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Re: help identifying a spiny stemmed mushroom! [Re: Mia]
    #5653521 - 05/20/06 02:27 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Cool pictures. :grin:

Appears to be a baby mycena.

I see many in my visits to the forest.


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Re: help identifying a spiny stemmed mushroom! [Re: eris]
    #5653542 - 05/20/06 02:35 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

thanks for the info! are spines like this always on mycenae, and just usually hidden from view?


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Re: help identifying a spiny stemmed mushroom! [Re: Mia]
    #5653662 - 05/20/06 03:24 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Either Mycena or Coprinus.......the gills of Coprinus will darken black after several hours because it has black colored spores and Mycena will stay whitish as its spores are usually whitish......thats common on alot of mushrooms and if in a crevice was just 'reaching' out for some more wood to munch and thats not actually the stem but the 'mycelial base' and the whole mushroom is made out of that same 'mycelium' just more tightly woven and differentiated into a cap, stem, etc.......you can also make a spore print by removing the stem and laying cap gills down and seeing what color it leaves of the ultra fine powder (spores) on the paper after awhile and this will tell you if Mycena or Coprinus

EDIT: here is a shroom with a spiny stem.....click
http://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/species/Collybia_racemosa.html
http://www.nybg.org/bsci/res/col/racemosa.html





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Re: help identifying a spiny stemmed mushroom! [Re: shroominDole]
    #5653726 - 05/20/06 03:40 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

But still be careful, those spines could be poisonous stingers that will make your hand swell up 5x its normal size wile your fingernails explode off!


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Re: help identifying a spiny stemmed mushroom! [Re: eris]
    #5653874 - 05/20/06 04:36 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Quote:

eris said:
Cool pictures. :grin:

Appears to be a baby mycena.

I see many in my visits to the forest.




I agree :smile:

I found some just like them:


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Re: help identifying a spiny stemmed mushroom! [Re: Mia]
    #5655034 - 05/21/06 12:05 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Mycena overholtzii tends to have mycelium at the base of the stem like that. However, it's a species from the western US, so you have something else that's similar. Neat stuff.

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