[weather]

What kind of a shroom is this? I at least think it's a shroom.

Mike

[Leif]

Originally Posted by weather

What kind of a shroom is this? I at least think it's a shroom.

Mike

It looks like a Coprinus comatus, commonly known as Lawyer's Wig, or Shaggy Ink Cap.

[ortolan_pl]

Originally Posted by weather

What kind of a shroom is this? I at least think it's a shroom.

Mike

See also:
http://www.grzyby.pl/gatunki/Coprinus_comatus.ht

[very boring banned member]

Good eating when they're young (not bleeding black ink), and far away from traffic, what they usually are not.

[Leif]

Originally Posted by Karwin

Good eating when they're young (not bleeding black ink), and far away from traffic, what they usually are not.

Good advice, and to generalise it, don't eat if they are growing on contaminated ground e.g. near/on a lawn that might have been sprayed with chemicals. Fungi have widespread mycelium - sort of like roots - which pick up chemicals. For quite some time after Chernobyl, fungi were found to have high levels of radioactive contamination.

[weather]

Thanks everyone! I'm afraid to eat shrooms i would pick anyway; plus, I found these at an arboretum and can't pick them anyway. I never seen these before. Interesting.

Mike