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28-10-2009, 03:48 PM
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| | | Big troops!
I have been noticing a few large troops appearing around the city center area lately...
Here is one of the more impressive and accessible one's... 
I'm curious what are the mushrooms responsible for these troops...  |
28-10-2009, 04:48 PM
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Must be old-fashioned soldier mushrooms - they are obviously used to forming a square! |
28-10-2009, 04:50 PM
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Originally Posted by BROCSMAN  Must be old-fashioned soldier mushrooms - they are obviously used to forming a square! | not Cordyceps militaris though!
LOL
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28-10-2009, 07:57 PM
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Any serious answers?? |
28-10-2009, 08:56 PM
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Serious question: What's a troop? Not up on fungi.  |
28-10-2009, 09:58 PM
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A serious answer!
I think the specimens in the photo are a species of Agaricus. If so it should mature to leave a choclate brown spore print. Have you done a spore print yet? You need include this and other details in your initial request for an ID (see the thread near the top of the list "Help us to help you identifi fungus")
Most likely to be Agaricus xanthoderma - The yellow Stainer (poisonous well at least 50% of the time) It tends to have flat side to the caps when young like the ends of drum sticks. If you cut the base of the stems of fresh specimens it should stain bright yellow if it is A.xanthoderma, if not you may need to buy a microscope to identify it to species.
Peter
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28-10-2009, 10:07 PM
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Originally Posted by rangersarah2 Serious question: What's a troop? Not up on fungi. | When a group fungi pop up in lines.
this here is a good example of a troop 
or here, though they are trooping in the form of a ring.  |
28-10-2009, 10:49 PM
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Originally Posted by wildherbalian85 | are those fly agaric on the right being affected by some sort of mould, like a Hypomyces? or is it something else??? |
29-10-2009, 06:46 AM
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Originally Posted by thebeard are those fly agaric on the right being affected by some sort of mould, like a Hypomyces? or is it something else??? | No, they are babies. They have yet to hatch from their egg 
I feel i should add that this is not my picture. |
29-10-2009, 10:46 AM
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ah i don'tthink i've seen them at that stage before, only read about it, i always assumed the 'egg' would look similar to the egg of Phallus impudicus for some reason  | | | |
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