The earth in that area was topped-up a few months ago with commercial compost, but none of it has grown a mushroom anywhere else in the yard. I assume the mechanical damage of the little vermin's claws is similar to 'casing' commercial mushrooms, where you break up the mycelium and give it a bit of fresh substrate to induce pin (baby mushroom) formation.
I don't know what it is, so I'm not going to eat it. At least one moth larva appears to be tackling it with gusto but that doesn't mean it's non-poisonous.
I once grew oyster mushrooms and blogged about it a couple of years ago. I didn't eat them either. Nasty things, fungi.
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Hi Sis
I hate to tell you, but I saw some identical shapes in Alien and things didn't turn out too well. I don't know if I told you, but I read Alien before seeing the film, when we lived in Bahrain and with my fading memory I could only remember parts of the story and when it came to the bit with the gyrating and exploding stomach I suddenly remembered what was about to happen and suggested to Chris, who was sat next to me 8 months pregnant with David, that she might want to close her eyes for the next 60 seconds, but I was too late with blood and guts everywhere - I mean on the film, not Chris, but she has never let me forget it.
Bruv
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