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Mushrooms that grow off straw
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Posted by riverminty (My Page) on Sun, Jun 14, 09 at 21:44
| This may be a vague sort off question... but believe me, I've looked, and you can't ask for anything on mushrooms via the search engine and get a specific result...
Are there American (specifically the midwest) mushrooms that prefer straw? We are gardening via straw bales, so we water our wheat straw bales heavily. As it so happens a bunch of short, squat, yellowish-white mushrooms have popped up on the side. And, if they're edible, I'd rather not waste them.
Death caps? Something else? Believe me, I'm not about to eat them, nor am I looking for a specific species.
But, in advance, thanks for the help! I'm sharp when it comes to wildflowers and weeds but know absolutely NOTHING about fungi, wild or otherwise. |
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RE: Mushrooms that grow off straw
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| Mushrooms grow when their spores are present and the conditions are right. I think providing a picture of what you have would help more in this case to id them. |
RE: Mushrooms that grow off straw
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| So the straw factor isn't a factor? I have no idea how post photos. :( HOWever, we now have a very distinctive bunch growing on the sides since just last night! They're extremely thin, fragile, with jet-black heads at the end of an almost transparent filament-thing. Does THAT give any clue? Thank you very much. |
RE: Mushrooms that grow off straw
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| I don't think straw itself is the definitive factor, no. I have just recently had a similar set of mushrooms grow out of a pile of grassing clippings that I had. I'm sorry, but I am no mushroom expert. You can upload pictures to a photohosting site like photobucket.com and then provide a link to them here. |
RE: Mushrooms that grow off straw
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| Mushroom can grow not only in rice straw but also in woods. I have searched from Google and the link is attached for your reference. |
Here is a link that might be useful: edible mushroom grows in woods and straw
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