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Description:

Tried three different times to figure out this fungus. It popped up overnight next to a tree in South Texas. It's approximately four inches tall.

Species ID Suggestions

Shaggy mane

Coprinus comatus

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Mark Ridgway
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Comments (1)
RexFantastic
It looks most likely to me to be the stem of a mushroom that has lost it's cap. It could be something else though, maybe a malformed mushroom or possibly some kind of stinkhorn.

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National Geographic's Great Nature Project
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PublishedAugust 1, 2014

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