Shaggy Manes at Stone Zoo.

[urbpan]

Shaggy mane mushrooms at Stone Zoo. They pop up like this and then...


As they release their spores they deliquesce into black liquid.

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[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Mmm, these reliably pop up in my yard around now, and I cook them up for breakfast or lunch. Here are some I photographed the other day.

How do you tell the difference between shaggy mane and inky cap, though?

[frith]

Look for a ring around the stem and a strand or thread of tissue inside the hollow stem. Collect the mushrooms young and only cook and eat the white parts. They turn into a black inky mess very quickly.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Cool! Thank you!

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Shaggy mane has a whiter, shaggier (more floccose) cap, and the cap margin curves toward the stipe when young, making it look completely oval in cross-section. At least that's my observation. This is a genus (actually several unrelated genera) that I have not eaten. Too many opportunities to confuse things with the alcohol inky which would ruin my average week.

Tom Volk's page on Coprinus mushrooms is pretty great: http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/may2004.html

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Okay, after looking at his page, those are definitely what I have. So from now on I'll just call it shaggy mane instead of "shaggy mane or maybe inky cap"