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Any idea what these are?

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giantangryrooster · 14/09/2020 12:25

Appeared with my green beans in a tomato plant bag. Don't look like the ones I can google. Any suggestions, please?

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giantangryrooster · 14/09/2020 20:15

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Bargebill19 · 14/09/2020 20:27

A mushroom of some sort. I wouldn’t eat it.

ErrolTheDragon · 15/09/2020 19:16

They might be chanterelles. My guess is that they may have used a proportion of spent mushroom compost in the tomato bag mix.

But then again, they might be something toxic, anywhere between stomach ache and serious effects/deadly. So I definitely wouldn't eat them.

giantangryrooster · 15/09/2020 19:45

Thanks @ErrolTheDragon. Too big for chanterelles, I think. Definitely not going to eat them, we once had mushrooms in the lawn, or so I thought until my ddad told me they were destroying angels Blush.

But you are probably right could be because of mushroom compost.

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MereDintofPandiculation · 19/09/2020 11:05

Definitely not chanterelles! That shape is described as a "Clitocybe-like outline" and you definitely don't want to mess with Clitocybe.

I wouldn't have thought they'd come from the spent mushroom compost. Mushroom growers would want their compost to be free of any other fungus - too much chance of litigation. But it's not uncommon to find ordinary bags of compost generating fungus fruiting bodies.

giantangryrooster · 19/09/2020 11:43

Thanks MereDintofPandiculation
I'm still none the wiser, there were lots of them in one bag. Wish they had been Chantelles Smile.

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