From: pwbrown44 <fossilcreekfarm@...>
Subject: [ohioms] Re: What are these? Help ID Compost Mushrooms
To: ohioms@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2009, 6:12 PM

I just did a quick test last night. I when I get home I will see what they left during the day today while I am gone. I could be wrong!
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> Hi, interesting pictures, but somethings wrong here.  Are you sure the purplish spore print is from these mushrooms?  Bill
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> From: pwbrown44 <fossilcreekfarm@ ...>
> Subject: [ohioms] What are these? Help ID Compost Mushrooms
> To: ohioms@yahoogroups. com
> Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2009, 7:44 AM
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> Hello Group,
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> These are found on my Equine Compost. The compost is about 4 years old.
> These mushrooms are very in appearance. The smaller ones look gray to purplish in color and the mature ones are HUGE and flat and Textured on top. The spore print I made last night is purplish in color .
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> I was having trouble uploading my pictures to the photo section of this group. Therefore I created a webpage to view the pictures. I tried to include both mature and young mushroom images. I did not get measurements.
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> Please view photos at:
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> http://gallery. me.com/pamela_ chmc#100278
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> *** I am below the level of a novice when it comes to identifying mushrooms. I just like to walk in my woods and see what I can find. I always have my phone with me that has my camera, so the pix are not of great quality. I am going to start to carry MY GOOD camera for better documentation. Thank you very much for the details of how to get information for identifying.
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