We have been in a rain every day cycle for awhile now. Our garden is usually on the dry side of well drained. It was a surprise to see this group of mushrooms growing in the flowerbed at the base of a lily stalk. Mushrooms are fascinating. Just in this group of five,the change in color and shape of the mushrooms as they age is amazing. I have not noticed them there before so I think they grow at a very fast pace. It will be fun to see how long it takes that small button to grow into a big flat umbrella .
I always get out my mushroom identification book and try to find out what kind of fungus is among us. I never have been successful in making a positive identification. In the end it doesn't matter. I don't do mushrooms. While I have a certain comfort level with identifying and eating some wild plants. Mushrooms scare me. I'm not interested in digestive upset, let alone kidney failure or death.
Even though I would never put wild mushrooms on the menu, I do have a certain curiosity to know what kind they are. How about it fungus folks? What do you think?
2 comments:
Sometimes a piece of mushroom slips by my lips when eating Italian food. Fungi are not a food group I willingly eat, domestic or wild.
I'm always on the look out for wild mushrooms but even with 4 field guides I'm only able to identify a small fraction of what I find. I have better luck identifying slime molds
My dad studied fungii when he was getting his PhD and we grew up in the woods of Alabama, so mushrooms were always a topic of conversation when we went out on our frequent nature walks. The lesson my dad always taught me was NEVER EVER EVER EVER eat a wild mushroom unless you are 150% sure of what it is and even then you probably shouldn't. So I admire them in the wild, but never touch them!
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