did you ever see a taller mushroom plant that is maroon in color and has oblong-shaped spikelike growths all the way up and down each separate shaft? it has white mold growing in many places on each shaft? this is the most UNUSUAL mushroom plant! i can't find a photo of it, nor any information. I saw it in a maple forest up in lower michigan, near kalamazoo. please give me a picture if you have one.
2006-09-26 08:14:47 · 4 answers · asked by Louiegirl_Chicago 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Botany
EXTRA details: clump of stalks was abt 6" circle; stalks all fatter, not thinner; all of each stalk fatter at bottom tapering up; all stalks having "point"ed parts coming out of whole circle of each stalk. color of this STRANGE, poisonous-LOOKING mushroom was DARK maroon; white mold-like patches at various places inside spaces between "spikes" on each stalk. At least 10 "stalks" in the bunch, each stalk having separate bulbed root. VERY DARK MAROON, never saw mushroom even remotely like this--rather ugly, interesting though.
2006-09-27 15:29:00 · update #1
Huh. Tough to say from your description, might be a Hiericium or some sort of coral mushroom or fairy club. But Hiericiums aren't maroon. It might actually be a nongreen plant, like Corallorhiza. Here are a few photos, in the order of my answer.
2006-09-26 20:32:55 · answer #1 · answered by candy2mercy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the best container instruction manual accessible is "Mushrooms Demystified"- by potential of David Auroa. The e book has identity charts that are incredibly ordinary to stick to. Plus, you frequently prefer to do a spore print, that's additionally incredibly ordinary to do. yet another decision is take a mycology classification at your community community college (in the event that they provide one). Mycology is the learn of mushrooms. you have got here across an LBM. David Aurora coined this term for any regularly occurring, brown mushroom. "LBM" stands for "little brown mushroom". In mycology, those mushrooms at the instant are not labeled, as there are a approaches too many diverse types and that they are thank you to small to worry with, so as that they are purely given the call LBM and are not dealt with in any respect.
2016-12-18 17:25:21 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Was it any of these?
http://www.pbase.com/455rocket/image/46857977
http://www.ems.psu.edu/BRIE/mushrooms/mushroomhunt2003.htm
http://www.nawwal.org/~mrgoff/photojournal/2004/fallwin/10-03p03purplefungus.html
2006-09-26 09:54:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm ... maybe you've just discovered something (maybe).
2006-10-02 16:41:30 · answer #4 · answered by Mousey 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋