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Monday Morning Mushroom Mystery
Saw this fungus along Parnell's Path during the Butterfly Walk.
Any idea what it is? About the size of a tennis ball, maybe a tad smaller.
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I posted more info
https://www.celeryfarm.net/2019/07/more-on-that-mushroom-mystery.html -
I looks like a skunk cabbage flower cluster, after it dries out.
Mike -
I forward to my son who is in to the mushroom . He think it may be Strobilomyces
(Old man of the wood). -
That’s a weird one. I wish I could see it in person, or see the underside. Maybe Strobilomyces sp.
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Jim Wright
I posted this:
https://www.celeryfarm.net/2019/07/more-on-that-mushroom-mystery.html
Jim Wright
I posted this:
https://www.celeryfarm.net/2019/07/more-on-that-mushroom-mystery.html
Jim Wright
I posted more info
https://www.celeryfarm.net/2019/07/more-on-that-mushroom-mystery.html
Mike Limatola
I looks like a skunk cabbage flower cluster, after it dries out.
Mike
Rochana
I forward to my son who is in to the mushroom . He think it may be Strobilomyces
(Old man of the wood).
TomMeg
That’s a weird one. I wish I could see it in person, or see the underside. Maybe Strobilomyces sp.