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Unidentified fungus

Description:

Unidentified mushroom growing on a dead branch. It was the size of a ping-pong ball.

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13 Comments

Leuba Ridgway
Leuba Ridgway 7 years ago

Congratulations Sergio - very interesting little mushroom !

Congrats Xará,for the SOTD and thanks for sharing :-)

Pradeep Kumar
Pradeep Kumar 7 years ago

Congratulations!

Sergio Monteiro
Sergio Monteiro 7 years ago

Thank you very much, Daniele.

DanielePralong
DanielePralong 7 years ago

Congratulations Sergio! This intriguing fungus concludes our week of highlights from Brazil, and is our Spotting of the Day!

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MayraSpringmann
MayraSpringmann 8 years ago

Lindooo!!!

Sergio Monteiro
Sergio Monteiro 8 years ago

Nope Hema, somebody got there before me. :-)

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 8 years ago

Did you take a bite out of it?

RandyL.
RandyL. 8 years ago

I agree, it does look coprinoid. It could be a Coprinellus species. It is very cool whatever it is.

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 8 years ago

It looks Coprinoid to me (if that's any help :)

Sergio Monteiro
Sergio Monteiro 8 years ago

Thank you Chun and Mark.

ChunXingWong
ChunXingWong 8 years ago

Beautiful fungi spotting!
Well done again Sergio.

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 8 years ago

Most unusual. I love the little bit of Trump on top.

Sergio Monteiro
Spotted by
Sergio Monteiro

Curitiba, PR, Brazil

Spotted on Sep 10, 2015
Submitted on Sep 11, 2015

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