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Coprinus comatus
Medium to large. Cap-White to yellowish to light brown before breaking into scales. Scales curl upward and may brown at maturity. Thin white flesh, then pink, purple, and finally black as it dissolves. Stalk-Cylindrical or spindle-shaped, with white and fibrillose surface above ground. With a loose ring just below the point at which the cap margin touches stalk that often falls away at an early stage.
Fruiting-Solitary, scattered, or in small clusters.
Edibility-Edible. Some consider it one of the best. Use only fresh young specimen. Through auto digestion it will become like the picture on the far right. It is recommended that you do not eat this fungus if you have consumed any alcohol in the past 32 hours, or plan to drink any in the next 32 hours. (Coprine poisoning from Coprine comatus is highly unlikely, however it is good to follow this since Coprine atrementaria, a common and edible look-a-like, does contain large quantities of Coprine.)
Spotted on Oct 10, 2015
Submitted on Oct 11, 2015
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