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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Ian Y on September 20, 2015, 11:44:23 AM

Title: Name that Fungi
Post by: Ian Y on September 20, 2015, 11:44:23 AM

I have just been photographing a fungi  that I cannot recall seeing in the garden before can any one name it for me?

It is very delicate and the cap curls back to form a cup, it has a hollow stem that collapses within a day or so of them opening.

Title: Re: Name that Fungi
Post by: Chris Johnson on September 20, 2015, 12:21:06 PM

Quote from: Ian Y on September 20, 2015, 11:44:23 AM

I have just been photographing a fungi  that I cannot recall seeing in the garden before can any one name it for me?

It is very delicate and the cap curls back to form a cup, it has a hollow stem that collapses within a day or so of them opening.

Ian, it's one of the Inkcaps (Coprinopsis, Coprinus genera). There are a lot of them and many need microscopy to get to species.

Title: Re: Name that Fungi
Post by: Ian Y on September 20, 2015, 12:27:08 PM

Thanks that makes sense Chris, when I saw the wee hairy shoots pushing through I thought they were of the shaggy inkcap it was only as they opened that realised they were something else.