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May 11

What kinda mushroom is this

I found this moshroom in my driveway/backyard:

Anyone know what kind it is? WikipediaNeko (talk) 18:30, 11 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"Comparing mushrooms to pictures is rarely successful", says mushroomexpert.com. I haven't linked to the front page but to the "key" for identifying a mushroom through a series of questions. So we start at (1), and the mushroom is not growing on another mushroom, so proceed to (2), which asks whether it has gills on its underside, and if it does, we proceed to (3) ... but the picture doesn't show the underside. It may also be useful to know things like how big it is, and what it smells like. If I make a guess that it's a gilled mushroom, and smells vaguely of fish, I get to Macrocystidia cucumis, where I see that the site has coined the initialism LBM ("Little Brown Mushroom"), presumably because there are a lot of those. So it probably isn't Macrocystidia cucumis. Card Zero (talk) 19:22, 11 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Not coined by them: little brown mushroom. 70.24.163.91 (talk) 02:32, 12 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]