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Help ID mushroom growing in my bonsai pot.
    #7723302 - 12/06/07 06:57 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Please help me id this mushroom.
I'm located in South Florida. This mushroom popped up in my little bonsai pot yesterday.
Here it is last night when I noticed it.

Side view

Just to give you an idea of the scale:


Here it is this morning:

And:


Here are some identifying features:
About 2.5 inches tall and the cap diameter is about 1.5 inches.
The color of the cap turned from tan with brown center to gray / bluish gray as it matured.
The gills are purplish/gray ( dark ).
There are two little ones growing a little distance from it.
The bonsai pot is indoors, on a window sill.
There's fine fuzzy whitish stuff growing on top of the soil in the pot on one side (underneath and around the mushroom).
The temp has been 77-79F.


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Re: Help ID mushroom growing in my bonsai pot. [Re: seucat]
    #7723526 - 12/06/07 08:25 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

This kind of looks like a Psilocybe semilanceata to me, but I'm not very sure, as i am not extremely experienced with ID'ing shrooms, the fuzzy stuff is the Fungus' mycelium.


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Re: Help ID mushroom growing in my bonsai pot. [Re: dirtbag]
    #7723665 - 12/06/07 09:19 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

This isn't a Ps. Semilanceta. And actually it doesn't look like it in any way ( no offense :wink:)

Now, I know what it's not, but I don't know what it is :crazy:


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Re: Help ID mushroom growing in my bonsai pot. [Re: seucat]
    #7723819 - 12/06/07 10:30 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Looks like an Inky Cap, probably Parasola plicatilis.


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Re: Help ID mushroom growing in my bonsai pot. [Re: CureCat]
    #7723847 - 12/06/07 10:42 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

> Looks like an Inky Cap, probably Parasola plicatilis.

It sure does look like that and it probably is, but the last photo makes me wonder. Usually Parasola type things have jet black gills at that stage of maturity.

Reminds me a little of Bolbitius.


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Re: Help ID mushroom growing in my bonsai pot. [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
    #7723853 - 12/06/07 10:45 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

I considered that as well, but the gills of Bolbitius are orange/brown, and I have not seen any species with distinct ridged striations on the pileus. That is a feature typical of Parasola. A lot of Parasola I have found have light gills simply because they are so dainty, and don't have a lot of area for heavy spore production.


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Re: Help ID mushroom growing in my bonsai pot. [Re: CureCat]
    #7726380 - 12/06/07 09:26 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

CureCat, you are such a nerd :smile:

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Re: Help ID mushroom growing in my bonsai pot. [Re: Cryogenicz]
    #7726649 - 12/06/07 10:27 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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CureCat, you are such a nerd :smile:




ssss ha!:grin:


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Re: Help ID mushroom growing in my bonsai pot. [Re: Cryogenicz]
    #7726725 - 12/06/07 10:51 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Why thank you...


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Re: Help ID mushroom growing in my bonsai pot. [Re: CureCat]
    #7726865 - 12/06/07 11:42 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

its a type of mycena mushroom that grows from the root sheding of your bonsai tree...


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Re: Help ID mushroom growing in my bonsai pot. [Re: NWDude]
    #7727024 - 12/07/07 12:26 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

> its a type of mycena mushroom that grows from the root sheding of your bonsai tree...

Good to see that we have such diversity of thought in this thread.

The mushroom doesn't really care what we call it.


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Re: Help ID mushroom growing in my bonsai pot. [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
    #7727063 - 12/07/07 12:39 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

there's a pin there too isnt there. couldn't it be a threat to your bonsai?


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Re: Help ID mushroom growing in my bonsai pot. [Re: NWDude]
    #7727237 - 12/07/07 01:57 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

NWDude said:
its a type of mycena mushroom that grows from the root sheding of your bonsai tree...



Quote:

seucat said:


The gills are purplish/gray ( dark ).



NWDude, I disagree. This photo and description both suggest otherwise.


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Re: Help ID mushroom growing in my bonsai pot. [Re: casgoodie]
    #7727491 - 12/07/07 06:14 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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there's a pin there too isnt there. couldn't it be a threat to your bonsai?



Yes, there are quite a few (about 4) and one looks like an abort.
Are they harmful? I thought mushrooms were generally beneficial to plants forming a symbiotic relationship.
Just a side note: The tree was shedding, so some leaves fell on the soil at the base and I let them be there. Could that be a contributing factor?


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Re: Help ID mushroom growing in my bonsai pot. [Re: CureCat]
    #7727499 - 12/07/07 06:20 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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Looks like an Inky Cap, probably Parasola plicatilis.



After comparing it with googled pictures, thats exactly what it is, or was because as of now it lies in a little shriveled heap on the soil. It was amazing to see such a fast growing being, with a lifespan of about 2 days.
Thank you and I feel I'm in good company.


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Re: Help ID mushroom growing in my bonsai pot. [Re: seucat]
    #7727887 - 12/07/07 09:29 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

curecat, be honest now...you and seucat are related aren't you?:hehehe:


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Re: Help ID mushroom growing in my bonsai pot. [Re: seucat]
    #7727891 - 12/07/07 09:30 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

There are some mushrooms which are mycorrhizal, forming symbiotic relationships with plants, there are also parasitic mushrooms which feed on and kill plants, and then there are the saprotrophs, like P. plicatilis, which are decomposers of dead material and are not harmful to the plant.


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Re: Help ID mushroom growing in my bonsai pot. [Re: CureCat]
    #7731288 - 12/07/07 11:39 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

that last picture is beautiful.


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Re: Help ID mushroom growing in my bonsai pot. [Re: BoulderBoomer]
    #7731871 - 12/08/07 03:32 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

i thought it was mycena when i first saw it, but i do agree with the coprinus id.

they are very nice picutures though, take some of the bonsai with it:)

what sort of tree is it? chinese elm?

edit: parasol sorry :S im still hungover forgive me :smile:


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Re: Help ID mushroom growing in my bonsai pot. [Re: CureCat]
    #7735005 - 12/08/07 10:34 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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CureCat said:
There are some mushrooms which are mycorrhizal, forming symbiotic relationships with plants, there are also parasitic mushrooms which feed on and kill plants, and then there are the saprotrophs, like P. plicatilis, which are decomposers of dead material and are not harmful to the plant.



Thanks Curecat. While you are at it, here's another one for you(or anyone else interested):
By strangest of coincidences, the pot right next to it popped up a few mushrooms of its own, but different species. What is going on? My girlfriend says, in her many years of experience, she's never seen one mushroom grow in indoor pots, let alone two different types within two days. But I digress.
Here are some pics:





close up


some identifying features:
Height: 1 1/2 in
Cap dia: 1/2 in
Stalk is white
Cap has a dark solid rusty brown center with radiating rusty spots outside to the end of the cap.

So, what are these? Also is this some sort of synchronistic event, an omen?


Edited by seucat (12/08/07 10:43 PM)


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