yes, Ashutosh, its often difficult , very difficult also according to Cornell univ blog on fungi by Dr. Kathie T. Hodge <k...@cornell.edu>
Editor and Blogificator, Associate Professor of Mycology, Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell univ. i quote " *It’s very hard to identify mushrooms from photographs alone"* end quote i totally agree with Dr Hodges. but in this case, i had an extra help from my esoteric classes i have taken in the past long forgotten. there are many ink cap mushrooms (both in genus *Coprinus* <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprinus> and genus *Coprinopsis* <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Coprinopsis_species> ) but in cases like this here, you never know where the nomenclature info pops out from sometimes it was not science on my part but a weird quirky memory bubble that came up from somewhere that got the AHA! forty two or more years ago i had for a few weekends tried making homemade inks dont ask me why? one was ink from this mushroom.... this mushroom was mentioned and our teacher showed photos and deep blue black sticky glop in a jar told us to go find it in the wet spots in the woods but i did not find it where i lived but those pictures stuck in my memory bank somewhere its enzyme chitinase in the mushroom that forms as the spores develop and then chitinase digests the mushroom into that deep dark sticky glop that can be turned into ink to write with chitin is found in the body armor of cockroaches of all things and shell fish shells etc . we had also toyed with the idea that we can spray this glop on cockroaches!!! human mind and its labyrinths are a wonder to me all this rushed out when i saw that pictures 3 and 5 above... weird , and wonderful isn't it? be well usha di On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 10:42 AM ashutoshsharma11sn < ashutoshsharma1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Ushadi it's definitely Coprinus comatus. > > Earlier I missed 3rd and 5th image with open matured black fruiting body > which confirms it as Coprinus comatus as such opened black mature fruiting > body doesn't occur in Podaxis sp. > > Yound Fruiting bodies of Podaxis sp. have the appearance of an unopened > Coprinus comatus,that's why I am confused. > > Here's a link mentioning the similarity > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podaxis > > Best regards > Ashutosh Sharma > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send an email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Usha di =========== -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
