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Why are mushroom appearing in my garden?
They're a perfectly natural part of nature's disposal/decomposition system - they break down dead wood. If they didn't, that dead wood would take forever to decompose, so if you have woody roots or ...
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Mushrooms grow in potting soil
Nothing to worry about and you can't stop the mushroom/s from growing, though you can just remove it yourself. Mushrooms are just the fruiting bodies of mycelium present in the soil - you may find ...
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What is this mushroom?
It's one of the stinkhorns, and yes it does look like a phallus. Surprised you haven't mentioned the stench yet, but you may notice it shortly, especially if more arrive. Its Latin name is Mutinus ...
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Mushrooms grow in potting soil
The mushroom itself is almost certainly not an issue (other than possibly aesthetically). Almost all species of mushroom are saprotrophic, which means they feed on decaying organic matter (and are a ...
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Mushroom growing, when to harvest champignons?
Those are fine-looking mushrooms!
The key for mushrooms "like from the store" (in Germany) is to harvest when they are not yet fully mature. This means that the velum, the thin skin at the underside ...
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Why are mushroom appearing in my garden?
Yes. Probably it is some Armillaria, but maybe other species. Fungi likes dead wood (and dead roots) as nutrient to grow. Fungi cannot produce own food (evolutionary, they are more related to animals ...
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What is this mushroom?
Yes, Bamboo, I agree. Here are a couple pictures of the "elegant stinkhorn", Mutinus elegans:
from Wikipedia,
and
from http://www.mushroomexpert.com/mutinus_elegans.html
Amazing isn't it?
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Is it safe to put mushroom plugs in living trees?
Please forget that idea immediately.
(Unless you want to slowly kill your trees, have them become unstable, brittle and generally dangerous, of course.)
There are two types of mushrooms that grow on ...
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Are these mushrooms poisonous and how can I get rid of them?
It's a member of the order Agaricales. Which contains many edible mushrooms such as the white mushrooms you buy in the store as well as very poisonous mushrooms such as the European destroying angel.
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Mushroom growing, when to harvest champignons?
How do I know when to harvest a champignon?
You can harvest it once it has formed a cap. When small it's called a button mushroom, and at its largest size it's called a portobello mushroom. If the ...
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How competitive is the oyster mycelium mushroom?
Oyster mushroom mycelium will definitely NOT out-compete green mold in anything but the most nitrogen poor substrates. Even then, it is usually just a race to get the mycelium to the point of fruiting ...
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Is Plant Still Safe to Eat If Mysterious Mushroom Grew in the Same Planter?
It's Parasola plicatilis, previously known as Coprinus, common name pleated inkcap. These are delicate mushrooms with a short lifespan of 24-72 hours - nothing much to worry about, they are saprobic, ...
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How can I automatically water my mushrooms?
The easiest answer is to buy a mister like for dart from and set it on a timer. You'd simply keep the reservoir filled and set the timer to come on multiple times a day to keep whatever consistency of ...
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What is this fungi/ mushroom we found on our walk?
It is almost certainly some species of inkcap. Beware - there are two edible (and tasty) species, but about two dozen poisonous ones!
I think this is one of the poisonous ones: the "magpie fungus" ...
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approximately how much compost does a foot of wood chips compost down to?
I would say the amount of "compost" you will get is precisely zero.
Saprophytes such as Stropharia Rugosoannulata feed by breaking dead organic matter down into simple chemical compounds ...
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Fungi by a passiflora plant - identification
You are right when you say you are wrong. This is nothing like Pelianthina.
This is clearly a close member of the Coprinus Genus. The hard part is those guys are dozens of sorts (and the genus got ...
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Will oyster mushrooms eat cooking oil?
Vegetable oils are basically triglycerides which are chains of organic compounds with hydroxyl groups.
The use of vegetable oil cakes has been examined in the cultivation of oyster mushrooms. ...
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What are these tiny animals on my oyster mushrooms?
Judging from the new picture, they are springtails. Check this here, they look very a like.
Springtails are not insects, however they have six legs (Hexapoda), so they are related. In an evolutionary ...
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How well do mushrooms grow on peat?
Poorly, while peat would be adequate as a “casing” (a top level of light soil that holds in moisture yet has so little nutrient value) that being said without destroying the natural bog by pulling up ...
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Are these really shiitake?
So to start off, this 100% without a doubt NOT Shiitake, but we'll come back to that. I'm glad you doubted the google image search results!
In response to the comment differentiating between ...
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Could one grow mushrooms on processed food waste?
The link you provide shows that the manufacturer recommends the final product as a soil amendment, not as actual soil, so they have the same concerns about unusually high levels of acidity or specific ...
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Can You Grow Mushrooms & Truffles Using Aeroponics and is there a way to store their "seeds"?
(Disclaimer: I am not a mycologist & am not an expert in mushroom cultivation, just a hobbyist)
With that disclaimer out of the way, I've never come across anything about growing mushrooms ...
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Mushrooms grow in potting soil
To confirm that, as other answers have suggested, this specific mushroom is harmless - this mushroom looks to be a member of the family Psathyrellaceae, perhaps even Coprinopsis atramentaria, the Inky ...
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White fungus at the tree base leading to leaf loss
I know this fungus as one of the shelf fungi. The link indicates
Once a tree is infected, the fungus cannot be killed.
There are many different types of shelf fungus and their actions differ from ...
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I got green mold in my oyster mushroom bag, what to do?
If you're trying to grow mushrooms vs creating a cardboard culture, then you might try and salvage it by burning the contamination out by using a magnifying lens. However, you're introducing billions ...
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Is Plant Still Safe to Eat If Mysterious Mushroom Grew in the Same Planter?
Could be a Mycena, Amanita, maybe others, I'm not an expert so I'd need to have a closer examination and a spore deposit to give you a real ID on the mushrooms. The mycelium is in the mix digesting ...
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What are these fungi growing next to my cucumber plant?
The little toadstools or mushrooms are just one of the Parasola inkcaps - they don't last long and are a common inhabitant where there are bark chips in borders. They will cause no harm to your ...
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What is that yellow stuff growing next to my pineapple
They're Leucocoprinus birnbaumii, a saprobic mushroom that isn't uncommon in pots and houseplants in pots. It won't harm your plants nor you, unless, that is, you eat them, because they're toxic if ...
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What is this small white mushroom with textured tops found in Israel?
The flattened tops and long stalks make it more likely they're young versions of the Onion Stalked Lepiota, now officially known as Leucocoprinus cepaestipes, although the stalks look a little thick -...
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What is this mushroom and is it dangerous for my dog?
This looks like some mushroom of the Polyporales Order, possibly of the Polyporaceae Family. The one in your friends garden probably sprouts on the dead roots or buried a trunk.
It could be this one ...
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