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Coprinellus micaceus or similar

Photo by ethan crenson
Published on Project Noah
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40.672, -73.985

Field Notes

Description:

cluster of small honey brown mushrooms with pale granules adhering to caps. Caps small less than 3/8 in. diameter, bell shaped, margin grooved. Gills crowded tan. Stem, hollow.

Habitat:

growing from an oak, just above another (polypore) fungus

Notes:

these are a very small and very dense cluster of what appear to be immature mushrooms of in the Coprinus neighborhood

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)
garylincoff
Beautiful photo! Certainly close to C. micaceus, if not that species

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Mushroom Mapping
Photographed
PublishedOctober 8, 2010

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