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I found mushrooms growing in my chicken yard this year and I am curious to know what they are.
It's been very dry this year in S.C. and they soil is sandy and very dry. I can't see how a mushroom would want to grow and thrive in that type of soil. Maybe someone can help me identify a mushroom that seems to enjoy dry sandy soil unlike most mushrooms.
I found mushrooms growing in my chicken yard this year and I am curious to know what they are.
It's been very dry this year in S.C. and they soil is sandy and very dry. I can't see how a mushroom would want to grow and thrive in that type of soil. Maybe someone can help me identify a mushroom that seems to enjoy dry sandy soil unlike most mushrooms.
Don't know what type of fungus it is but its probably feeding off chicken poop. The spores might have been introduced by the poop or the chicken feed.
Sorry but those pictures are pretty bad. Might be a puffball of some kind but I really cant tell. Can you get better pictures of various stages young to old, and cut one in half?
To start a mushroom identification you need to note whether there is a veil on the stem, how the gills are attached to the cap/stem, shape and texture of the cap as well as make a spore card to identify their color. There are lots of photos online to help narrow it down but don't eat it until you know more about it.
I found mushrooms growing in my chicken yard this year and I am curious to know what they are.
It's been very dry this year in S.C. and they soil is sandy and very dry. I can't see how a mushroom would want to grow and thrive in that type of soil. Maybe someone can help me identify a mushroom that seems to enjoy dry sandy soil unlike most mushrooms.
All I can tell you is this. When I first noticed them they seemed to be hard and so low to the ground I saw no stems. In the first photo you can see a little bit of wide stem. In the last one, the top of the mushroom had been removed and that is the powdery stuff inside. I am mostly interested in what would thrive in such dry sandy ground. Thanks. Oh, I forgot to mention the mushrooms seemed to be very hard.
Could be. They grow in sandy soil and the pictures are consistent with puffball.
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