Hey dudes what kind of mushroom is this? I been living in Texas my whole life and I have never seen this one before.
Here’s a few more pics
>>2721184amateur mycologist never seen anything like that in my life. did you take it with you?
>>2721184Another amateur mycologist but from Texas, I have never seen that thing in any of my studies or foraging. Whatever it is, it's very dead so it's probably unrecognizable to what it typically looks like.
Make sure you yell "Fore!" before whacking it with a driver.t. 300 yards. pieces
>>2721228i'm >>2721207does it look to you at all like a severely mutated oyster? i feel like i'm dreaming looking at it.OP, bring it to a local mycological research center plz and thx. i wish i knew what it was.
>>2721184Maybe cauliflower mushroom.
>>2721234I was thinking of some kind of mutated Coprinus, but the "cap" should be black if it's mature. Maybe we're just being dumb, but I'm stumped. That type of structure typically doesn't have a stem or gills, and yet it has both. Hopefully someone more experienced can answer it and call us dumbasses.
>>2721255it has gills, false gills, a stipe but no visible annulus (unless the weird brown thing is a remnant of one?) teeth-looking structures (that appear to just be compressed cap growths)... it's a weird one. i hope some expert comes along and just calls us retarded faggots and drops the species name, but otherwise i'm thinking it's something new
Op here sorry for such late reply got kinda busy. I tore it open here’s the inside.
Last pic it’s pretty squishy. Showed it to my uncle he’s a geologist and spent lots of time outdoors he’s never seen it before either.
>>2721207>>2721228>>2721255I did take it to a few people but nobody professional. It was fresh out of the ground when I took that pic. I’m the one that pulled it up because I wanted a good look at the underside.
>>2721297post it on a mycology forum or better yet dm alan rockefeller on instagram or something.
take a bite what could possibly go wrong
>>2721184This is crazy looking!! It looks highly mutated. Maybe something in the family shaggy mane(coprinus)? My first thought was it looks very similar to a polyploidy in plants, but mycelium cultures aren't diploid like plants and animals, at least not to my understanding. Try posting it on the foraging section of the shroomery.
Coprinus/ coprinopsis speciesit's grown deformed due to any number of microclimate or genetic factors and will basically try and fail to correct it's own form as it grows wrong
