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Mushroom identification?

Blameless ClericBlameless Cleric An angel made of sapphires each more flawlessly cut than the last Registered User regular
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Hi there! Dunno if anyone is a mushroom expert, but these little guys sprouted up in the pot of a plant after we brought it in during a big storm. They've only been visible for a couple of days. I live in Western MA and I'd just really like to know what these are, mostly to see if they'll kill the plant or be dangerous for our cats (they don't eat stuff like that but they do sniff stuff)

I've done a little digging online but haven't found anything that looks right yet

Also if it's any clue, we grew some oyster mushrooms in the same room a while back, but it was quite some time ago and they were white, so I'm not sure that that is relevant.

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  • ceresceres When the last moon is cast over the last star of morning And the future has past without even a last desperate warningRegistered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    I believe @Xaquin is our resident mushroom expert?

    And it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn
  • FiendishrabbitFiendishrabbit Registered User regular
    They're Flowerpot parasols and they're slightly poisonous (they might cause your cat to puke its guts out for a day or so). Normally a tropical fungi it's not uncommonly found in flowerpot soil.

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  • Blameless ClericBlameless Cleric An angel made of sapphires each more flawlessly cut than the last Registered User regular
    that's exactly what it is! thank you

    Orphane wrote: »

    one flower ring to rule them all and in the sunlightness bind them

    I'd love it if you took a look at my art and my PATREON!
  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    I'm ok with edibles, but not otherwise I'm afraid

    Glad they got identified!

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  • JaysonFourJaysonFour Classy Monster Kitteh Registered User regular
    Never, ever underestimate the things a cat will lick or taste simply because it's there and they've never seen it before. The quicker you end this little problem and get rid of it, the safer your cat will be.

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  • Blameless ClericBlameless Cleric An angel made of sapphires each more flawlessly cut than the last Registered User regular
    Yes, the plant will have to be moved out again for sure. Thanks guys!

    Orphane wrote: »

    one flower ring to rule them all and in the sunlightness bind them

    I'd love it if you took a look at my art and my PATREON!
  • mtsmts Dr. Robot King Registered User regular
    Jumping on this thread. Apologies for links as I'm on my phone.

    Saw a lot of these in NH
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/6W5xD2BvmErwwZXD7

    Also this one in nj
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/ptCbSyyBKBwaY5n59

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  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    mts wrote: »
    Jumping on this thread. Apologies for links as I'm on my phone.

    Saw a lot of these in NH
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/6W5xD2BvmErwwZXD7

    Also this one in nj
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/ptCbSyyBKBwaY5n59

    It looks like that first one is actually a parasitic plant! You can see the leaves and everything. Looks like Indian Pipe.

  • FiendishrabbitFiendishrabbit Registered User regular
    The second one definitely looks like some kind of oyster mushroom, but the colour is all wrong. The only oyster mushrooms that I know that's that shape are either strongly yellow or very pale white, not this half-creamy middle-version.

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    -Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
  • mtsmts Dr. Robot King Registered User regular
    The first one was all over the place. It did look planrish but the grouping made me think mushrooms

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  • FiendishrabbitFiendishrabbit Registered User regular
    mts wrote: »
    The first one was all over the place. It did look planrish but the grouping made me think mushrooms
    It's a ghost plant, which is entirely mycotrophic. Ie, it sucks all of its nutrition from fungus. So it can only grow where there is fungus, but it's not fungus itself. It looks creepy, it acts creepy (growing from nothing to full plant within days, flowering, growing its fruit and dying. Usually after rainfall. Then gone without a trace) so it's no wonder why people call it the ghost plant.

    "The western world sips from a poisonous cocktail: Polarisation, populism, protectionism and post-truth"
    -Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
  • see317see317 Registered User regular
    Fiendishrabbit wrote: »
    mts wrote: »
    The first one was all over the place. It did look planrish but the grouping made me think mushrooms
    It's a ghost plant, which is entirely mycotrophic. Ie, it sucks all of its nutrition from fungus. So it can only grow where there is fungus, but it's not fungus itself. It looks creepy, it acts creepy (growing from nothing to full plant within days, flowering, growing its fruit and dying. Usually after rainfall. Then gone without a trace) so it's no wonder why people call it the ghost plant.

    It seems really weird to awesome a post about... well, whatever the layman term is for this, but that's a cool picture and a cool bit of information.

  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    First one is an Indian pipe

    Second one MIGHT be a type of oyster but I kind of doubt it

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  • ceresceres When the last moon is cast over the last star of morning And the future has past without even a last desperate warningRegistered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    Yep, those are some damn creepy plants.

    And it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn
  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    edited August 2018
    see317 wrote: »
    Fiendishrabbit wrote: »
    mts wrote: »
    The first one was all over the place. It did look planrish but the grouping made me think mushrooms
    It's a ghost plant, which is entirely mycotrophic. Ie, it sucks all of its nutrition from fungus. So it can only grow where there is fungus, but it's not fungus itself. It looks creepy, it acts creepy (growing from nothing to full plant within days, flowering, growing its fruit and dying. Usually after rainfall. Then gone without a trace) so it's no wonder why people call it the ghost plant.

    It seems really weird to awesome a post about... well, whatever the layman term is for this, but that's a cool picture and a cool bit of information.

    Most plants actually have mycorrhizal associations in their roots and use the fungus filaments to pull water and nutrients from the soil. But, this guy takes it to another level and doesn't have chlorophyll to produce food from sunlight, although as fiendishrabbit says, it's gets all it's food from a fungus, which is in a mycorrhizal relationship with a different plant getting it's energy from the sun.

    Burtletoy on
  • mtsmts Dr. Robot King Registered User regular
    edited August 2018
    they were really cool and would always draw my eye.

    here are a couple more
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    Not a ghost plant but still cool and I think a fungus. same tree as the "oyster" one
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    mts on
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  • ArbitraryDescriptorArbitraryDescriptor Registered User regular
    Xaquin wrote: »
    I'm ok with edibles, but not otherwise I'm afraid
    Fiendishrabbit wrote: »
    They're Flowerpot parasols and they're slightly poisonous

    So Xaquin as an eat/!eat mushroom consultant still pretty much checks out.

  • FiendishrabbitFiendishrabbit Registered User regular
    mts wrote: »
    Not a ghost plant but still cool and I think a fungus. same tree as the "oyster" one
    NTsxcPB.jpg

    Poor tree. I don't know what that fungus is called, but it basicly meanas that the tree is a gonner unless you cut off all infected branches.

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    -Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    probably coral spot

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nectria_cinnabarina

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  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    ArbitraryDescriptor wrote: »
    Xaquin wrote: »
    I'm ok with edibles, but not otherwise I'm afraid
    Fiendishrabbit wrote: »
    They're Flowerpot parasols and they're slightly poisonous

    So Xaquin as an eat/!eat mushroom consultant still pretty much checks out.

    except true gilled mushrooms and most boletes

    I avoid them as a rule since I am not qualified at all to identify them*

    *I probably could identify them, but realistically, I know so many edibles that I really don't feel like adding any risk when I've already got a fridge and freezer full anyway

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  • LovelyLovely Registered User regular
    I never thought the mushroom thread would creep me out more than the bug thread....

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  • DarkewolfeDarkewolfe Registered User regular
    Lovely wrote: »
    I never thought the mushroom thread would creep me out more than the bug thread....

    Queue pictures of the fungus that turns bugs into zombies.

    What is this I don't even.
  • LovelyLovely Registered User regular
    Cordyceps. Went down that curiosity search just the other day!

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