This mushroom is in a garden I was photographing yesterday. I have not seen one before and using google I did not find any results. One photo has a measuring tape lying across it to indicate the size, one is a close up of gills and the other a perspective shot in the garden.
i have a couple of guesses on your nearly-overmature fruitbody. Maybe someone else can recognize it by sight with confidence, but i need a spore print on this mushroom. You can google 'spore print' if you don't know how to do it - it is easy and the top 10 hits on google all work. And i'd like to see what the base of the mushroom looks like (dig down with your fingers until you find the base of the stem, then take a photograph).
So can I do the spore print without disturbing the mushroom? The owner of the property does not want it destroyed.
you can set up the spore print in the field - just put a piece of paper under the mushroom. maybe drive a pencil through the paper into the ground to act like a stake to hold it in place. Then put a gallon bucket over the whole thing over night. You don't want it to be airtight, but you do want it to block most wind.
So I tried to do the spore print in the field and I broke the mushroom at the base:(:( So I brought it home and have taken a few more photos and now have it up side down on a white paper covered with a glass bowl. Should I take a photo of the white paper tomorrow? Thanks so much. I have attached 3 more photos the first is a small clump of the same type of mushroom I believe about 10 ft away and half the size. the second is the base of one of the smaller mushrooms the third is the large one, broken upside down on white paper.
you can just reply with the spore print color, no need to photograph it. are they growing under a conifer tree? i see a lot of pine needles? lastly,and sorry if you know this already, but when you take the spore print, the mushroom's gills have to be facing the paper. maybe you just took that last photo of the mushroom upside down ON your paper you will take a spore print, but you'll have to flip it over to take the actual spore print. looking forward to the spore print color!
Hi yes, the mushroom is growing under either a fir or balsam tree or a spruce, I wasn't really looking at the tree, but it is right beside a forest of conifers. Yes, I did turn the mushroom up the other way, so hopefully by the morning there will be some spores. Thanks again.
