Mushrooms in the Bristlecone Border
Posted April 30, 2010 by Dominique Bayne, Former Senior Horticulturist
Coprinus comatus - shaggy mane
I was very excited yesterday to find these beautiful mushrooms in the Bristlecone border.
Though I know nothing about mushrooms we are very lucky here at Denver Botanic Gardens to have access to the Sam Mitchel Herbarium of Fungi. I decided to take one of them down to our experts for identification – it turned out to be a Coprinus comatus or shaggy mane.
Apparently it is one of inky cap mushrooms,
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