I live in central Oklahoma and I found 4 different areas with remains of what look like burned plants but they are separated by about 10 feet each and no where else looks burned. I never saw what it looked like before this. Can someone identify this? Thank you
by Top_Refrigerator2626
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I think that was a big crop of mushrooms that are in the ending stages of decomposition.
You can see some of the gill prints (where the spores dropped from underneath) against the concrete.
Like this other post I found, but even more decomposed https://www.reddit.com/r/ShroomID/comments/18bzopt/found_a_largely_decomposed_pile_with_visible/
100% mushrooms
Yall really can’t see faces in plants, especially mushrooms? The shroom posted looks like many different characters
Shaggy mane mushrooms possibly
I had a mushroom in my yard turn into horrible black goop like what is in your picture. Apparently some variety of mushrooms self digest as part of their life cycle.
Coprinus comatus
https://preview.redd.it/vpucmwiy4kyf1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cea4b13c18981c159c91fc942726281ce7931d96
Fungus amongus
Inky cap mushrooms? They melt/rot in just a day
comfrey can rot like that too
That looks like the upside down bro. Burn it some more.
i’m not sure how much r/mycology would enjoy seeing this posted as a daily riddle sort of thing with just your location, but i welcome you to try it *(a three minutes’ post edit: maybe try “ink cap print?” in the title if you don’t have something else)*. there’s probably already a lot of overlapping readers, so test the waters if you want. maybe a daily thread comment or something.
i’m in AZ and i may have seen ink cap aftermath once or twice, but there are surely places warm/wet enough in AZ. i’d guess.
so apparently if the outside “bark” sticks in a pretty alligator black-and-white instead of getting shaggy, it could be a toxic/less edible ink cap (mostly found elsewhere; magpie fungus). ink caps also have troublesome metabolites for alcohol consumption, just an oddity.
sorry if edibility discussion’s discouraged here but maybe look it up if you have a dog, the alligator-looking inkcap doesn’t seem to be deadly poisonous, but it sounds bad enough to be distressing. and it’s pretty… but rare in NA, and maybe i should bring up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorophyllum_molybdites instead, as if i knew what i was talking about. still pretty, but “the vomiter.” i should look into their deliquescence.
i think it’s a cool picture.