coprinus comatus - growing day by day

in musrhoms •  2 years ago 

Hola, setero! I have fresh mushroom impressions to share.

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Two days ago I found in my local park a little family of Coprinus comatus, aka 'layer's wig' -- fancy autumn mushroom that I always enjoy to encounter and watch thru my camera's viewfinder.

This mushroom has many interesting qualities that I don't want to go into detail about right now. In fact, I have already met this mushroom more than once, and showed photos ... besides, I do not want to repeat myself and retell all the information that I know. I will only mention that this mushroom ages in a very spectacular way: it turns into black slime (which consists of fungal spores, this is such a reproduction mechanism)

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Now I'm going to watch this Coprinus comatus family in its development, every morning on the way to the office I come to the park and take a couple of photos. Let's see what I get in the end;

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right now, I have at my disposal photos from just two days (yesterday and today).

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This mushroom had its cap damaged,-- it continues to grow. In the photo below you can see how its cap opens while it grows.

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The edge of the cap is already beginning to denature - turning into black mucus. This mucus is actually the spores of a fungus. And they can paint everything an intense black color. Several centuries ago, this mushroom was even used to make special ink.

The Family on the day two --

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And that is all I have got up to date. I will continue my studies, and will take more pics. A great thing that I know what I can expect further on, in terms of the mushroom maturing.(Although, of course, the possibility cannot be ruled out that tomorrow I will come to the same place only to see the mushroom massacre - the whole family can be trampled on by some idiot or an ignorant mushroom hater who is afraid of toadstools ... or just a dog playing in the park ... every scenario is possible! but lets hope for a happy ending of my natural-philosophical experiment :)

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