You know, you can take the caps off, lay them on a piece of white paper (the thicker, the better)and cover them with plastic wrap for a day or so...and voila, you get neato mushroom spore art!
My mom used to do this in the seventies and would then spray the "prints" with shelac, preserving them forever.
LOL! That's a very cool idea. I am so bad about not saving things. Or making things to save. Or, even, really, making things we can't eat... The kids would love that, as long as we didn't forget about them too long and end up w/ mold spores on top of mushroom spores. LOL.
My best guess is that the fungus is feeding on something in the soil...perhaps there was fungus in the mulch or compost that you used? Mushrooms are just the "flowering" body of a much larger fungus living underground, and their only purpose is to release spores. You can have two patches of mushrooms ten feet apart that are actually part of the same fungus. Very Sci-fi, huh?
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You know, you can take the caps off, lay them on a piece of white paper (the thicker, the better)and cover them with plastic wrap for a day or so...and voila, you get neato mushroom spore art!
My mom used to do this in the seventies and would then spray the "prints" with shelac, preserving them forever.
Just a whacko idea!
mere
LOL! That's a very cool idea. I am so bad about not saving things. Or making things to save. Or, even, really, making things we can't eat... The kids would love that, as long as we didn't forget about them too long and end up w/ mold spores on top of mushroom spores. LOL.
But why are they in my garden???
Dy
You KNOW that posting stuff like that is like fungi p*rn for Ernie...
My best guess is that the fungus is feeding on something in the soil...perhaps there was fungus in the mulch or compost that you used? Mushrooms are just the "flowering" body of a much larger fungus living underground, and their only purpose is to release spores. You can have two patches of mushrooms ten feet apart that are actually part of the same fungus. Very Sci-fi, huh?
Not an expert, just took one semester of botany.
mere
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