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Mushroom
Chris Mason
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I've noticed some mushrooms/fungus growing in my garden, where they are currently growing is absolutely fine and to be honest they're quite nice to look at, the only worry I have is that these might spread to my strawberry patch which is very close to these things.
Are these things dangerous? I do not plan on eating them but I'd like to know how much caution I should hold towards them. I can not upload pictures but the best I can do is upload a picture to instagram and give a link, please tell me if it doesn't work.0
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https://www.instagram.com/p/_SBWHRrP-t/
Most fungi are harmless, many are beneficial. They're not likely to be visible at strawberry time. They have a very short life above ground
In the sticks near Peterborough
PS, if you hit return after posting a link it makes it live for everyone. Some devices don't seem to manage them otherwise
In the sticks near Peterborough
Somehow your 2nd link went to Chris's own photo Jo, so fixed it here:
http://www.first-nature.com/fungi/mutinus-caninus.php
The fact that there is really no readily-available information on this fungus makes me assume that are you are in fact correct, it is harmless, obviously if it was potentially harmful there would be stern warnings; I'll keep looking as I am curious to know what it is and I would like to keep a record of fungi in the garden, so far I've observed: Bomet muchena, Coral spot fungus and varicoloured bracket. Thank you for the responsesNa!! They are not harmful!! Infact most of those saprophytes are not harmful