weird garden mushrooms

Ollieda
Ollieda Posts: 1,010
edited October 2010 in The bottom bracket
Any gardening buffs out there able to help out?

Whilst setting up / testing a new hosepipe today I sprayed some mushrooms that were growing at the bottom of the garden and one of them tore under the pressure of the hose and burst into a cloud of brown smoke....of course this made me curious so I gave one a little kick and it ripped open and a clump of what looked just like dried mud fell out, gave it a spray with the hose and upon contact with water it puffed into brown smoke again.

Upon closer inspection the mushrooms seem to have the normal (but really small) stalk bit then the top cap is hollow with this dried dirt like thing inside. I might just be really stupid and this is normal for a growing mushroom but I thought I would check - any ideas as to whether they are safe or should I consider killing these things off?

I wonder how long it will be before someone makes a magic mushroom joke.....

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  • pb21
    pb21 Posts: 2,171
    Sounds like a Puffball.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffball
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  • Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin Posts: 4,330
    Spores?
  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    Have you got a will?
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  • Ginjafro
    Ginjafro Posts: 572
    I agree, It does sound like a puffball. From the description I assume it wasn't massive and was, well, brown! This would according to any Mycologist, be an Umber Brown Puffball - Lycoperdon umbrinum. They are pretty cool as fungi goes and there are lots of puffball species, including Giant Puffballs which can be as big as a football, mad or what!
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  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    Triffids
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  • Ginjafro
    Ginjafro Posts: 572
    P.S don't kill them they are quite harmless and should be regarded as quite beautiful and desirable to have.
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  • Scrumple
    Scrumple Posts: 2,665
    They are also good in bed.
  • brin
    brin Posts: 1,122
    The wife and mother in law love them.......well they did :wink:
  • dennisn
    dennisn Posts: 10,601
    Cleat Eastwood wrote:
    Triffids

    :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
  • hennez
    hennez Posts: 255
    they go down well in an omelete............ :lol::lol::lol:

    maybe not :roll:
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  • StanwaySteve62
    StanwaySteve62 Posts: 702
    I just found some musrooms under a bush and they are about 18 inchs long with a about a six inch long head :shock:
  • hennez
    hennez Posts: 255
    StanwaySteve62 wrote:
    I just found some musrooms under a bush and they are about 18 inchs long with a about a six inch long head :shock:
    :shock: :shock: :shock:
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