Shaggy Ink Cap (Pic)

[Matthew.Passmore]

This guy has popped up in my back garden last week, I mowed the grass around him and let him grow into a big boy (resisting the urge to eat him) to see how it developed.

Next to a standard pint glass for scale.
You can see the spores around the rim of the cap dripping off as a black slime - hence the name "Ink" cap.
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn57/MattPassmore/Fungi/CoprinusComatus.jpg

Shaggy Ink cap (Coprinus Comatus)
Edible when young and gills are still white, does not produce a reaction with alcohol.

[Melonfish]

only seen one of these all year, perfect specimin however!

[Cyclingrelf]

You lucky thing! Can't believe you didn't eat it - so nice fried up in butter, then stick an egg in a ramekin (little oven proof thing), but of butter, top with mushies, bit of garlic, cook until the egg is how you like them...YUMMY!

[Matthew.Passmore]

You lucky thing! Can't believe you didn't eat it - so nice fried up in butter, then stick an egg in a ramekin (little oven proof thing), but of butter, top with mushies, bit of garlic, cook until the egg is how you like them...YUMMY!

I thought about eating the young one behind but the dog decided that he would wee on them lol

[dwardo]

I was just walking the dog and saw the first one this year :)

[Cyclingrelf]

I thought about eating the young one behind but the dog decided that he would wee on them lol
Ah - better fence 'em off next year to be sure ;)