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A white mushroom, not so different from supermarket Agaricus mushrooms, but has a wider, thinner cap and a longer, thinner stipe. Dark brown gills. Sorry there is nothing for scale, aside from the my normal-sized handwriting.
Sacks of human feces stored protected from the sun and the rain, in a re-constituted rainforest on the edge of the city. These mushrooms seem to only emerge from the sacks that are in contact with the soil and thus likely are receiving sufficient moisture.
This species of mushroom grows out sacks of feces from Urine-diverting Dry Toilets in Amazonian Ecuador. (The feces were covered in a mix of sawdust and wood ash.) Is this directly associated with decomposing feces? Does it kill pathogens including Ascaris worm eggs?
Spotted on Jul 20, 2012
Submitted on Apr 20, 2014
4 Comments
Still waiting for a mycologist to identify this mushroom.
Who knows? The species might turn out to be very healthful one to eat, once we know what it is. Of course, we may prefer to cook it.
8-)
Well it might be similar to supermarket mushrooms but after what I have just read I sure wouldn't be eating it.