Mushrooms or summink nasty!!!

[ClockworkOrange]

OK my TE buddies, who always manage to come up with good sensible answers.

Can anybody tell me what these are, fungus, toadstools, mushrooms?

I discovered them growing in the garden soil, very near my lounge door AND I don't like them, not with my current health problem.

Next concern, is knowing how to treat the soil once they have gone, as I realised although they are not visible, there are possible underground thingies lurking!

Yesterday morning, a cream colour



Close up photo same morning


This morning at 10.30 am, now changed colour to grey


This evening at 7.30pm, appear to be dying off


I dislike killing anything, even weeds but the thought of these spores making me worse, I really don't need it.

Clock

[Tuckervill]

They're just garden variety mushrooms. Pop up when it rains and then die very quickly. I have a feeling they've been growing there for a long long time and you just never noticed, and now you're hyper-aware because of what's going on.

We'd all be sick if those caused illness, because those are everywhere.

Karen

[tulip]

Yes, they're just mushrooms. Don't eat them; just let them be and they'll go away when it dries up. Of course there are underground things lurking--it's called NATURE. Let it be. Don't go spraying poisons. That'll just do you and everyone else bad.

[smilingcat]

fungus? yes

toad stool? no toad stool is a comon name to Amanita genus of fungi. had to go look it up in my books... Amanita Muscaria (toad stool)is a red mushroom with white flecks on top. I gave up on Los Angeles chapter of Mycological society. I live in a desert or semi-arid country. Mushroom? where??

mushroom? yes its a mushroom.

Best not to eat without proper identification.

The stuff underneath the ground is mycilium (sp). A root for a plant. Touching the mushroom will not cause poisoning. It will not poison your plant nor will it make it poisonous. If you are bothered by it, wear a disposable glove (latex or some form of plastic), collect it in a bag and throw it away.

[ClockworkOrange]

Tuckervill We'd all be sick if those caused illness, because those are everywhere.

That was my concern, Aspergillus is everywhere and yet the Aspergillus itself has the ability to grow inside your lungs, so you end up allergic to yourself.

Aspergillus is a fungus which occurs everywhere throughout the world, that feeds on dead animal or plant material, and in this role it is vitally important to the environment to recyle all kinds of biological materials. It is spread via microscopically small spores that are extremely light and float easily in the air.

Normally when Aspergillus spores are inhaled by people, their immune system recognises the spores as foreign and they are destroyed. Unfortunately my immune system is dumb and reacts!

Cheers for all the replies, you must have thought what a idiot, no I had no intention of eating them. I just freaked a bit when I first saw them, the only word I could think of was 'spores'...........and I panicked.


Thank you again for your time in answering a rather silly old woman!


Clock.................slowly ticking on, very slowly!

[jdubble]

I freaked out last year when a bunch of mushrooms showed up in my garden bed suddenly and told a friend who lives on a farm. Her eyes got big and she said that was good, that it meant I had good nutrient-rich soil and compost. So I let them be.