#shaggy mane
20/10/2020 Shaggy mane.
You’ll be walking in a forest in autumn, and suddenly the birds all switch over to singing the Mission Impossible theme, and you know: someone nearby has picked some shaggy manes and has only a couple hours to cook and eat them before they self-destruct by dissolving into a greenish-black ooze.
The ooze makes a passable ink, if you happen to be mad that your dinner liquified itself and would like to write a strongly worded letter to the shaggy manes, withthe shaggy manes. Itis quite unsporting to dissolve into ink when someone tries to eat one, after all. Especially if one is a carnivorous mushroom, fond of growing spikes underground, stabbing passing worms, and digesting them.
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Coprinus comatus commonly known as a Shaggy Mane or Shaggy Ink Cap. The two mushroom pictured are at different levels of maturity. As time passes, the mushroom digests its gills from the gill-edge upwards in order to increase spore-releasing gill surface area. You can see the mushroom starting to liquefy into a sort of “ink”. These mushrooms usually don’t last more than 24 hrs before becoming black puddles with stems
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