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Coprinopsis lagopus
180mm tall, grey, translucent, striated top 50mm wide, narrow white smooth stipe, pileus split and rolled upwards. Solitary but a couple within the local few metres.
On wood mulch in an open reserve.
These mushrooms start with the cap well down, spreading upwards and splitting, rolling inwards until they consume themselves in a gooey black mass. See the sequence here... http://australianfungi.blogspot.com.au/2...
Spotted on May 15, 2012
Submitted on Jun 5, 2012
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Nice angle for this pretty ink cap that I found too, in our secret garden. I love the sequence link you found and the sacrificial behavior of this mushroom (well, I guess it is only the fruiting body) to procreate. Check this link for what I think is a new binomial for this species. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprinopsis...