A Fungus Among Us

Actually, yes we do and it's in different spots at different times of the year. Odd, isn't it? I think the one type is edible but not sure. It's white with a flat top. That grows near the pool and should be showing itself any day now. We have nearly black small mushrooms that grow through-out the lawn, brown slimey mushrooms down near the creek. I had to teach my daughter when she was 3yrs. old NOT to touch any of the mushrooms growing in the lawn being she loves them so much. All I need was to have to rush her to the ER after picking and eating them.

No fungus so far this year. Some of the other lawns suddenly sprung some up just this week though. There is one growing underground in the UP of Michigan that is supposedly five miles across. They have a festival called the Humongous Fungus festival.

LOL I was thinking about our bread gone bad when I saw this post well mushroom I don't mind it I'm really jealous that you grow all these in your yard you could've opened your own grocery store someday :) our garden is still on trial, next year we will know better winter though is going to just kill them all

Last time I saw wild mushrooms growing was maybe a couple of years ago. The golf course out here near us had a bunch of them but nothing huge like yours. My grandson went and kicked some of them down. He had fun.

hiGrandpa Bob when we had our own house last we used to get fairy rings mushroom,poisonous of course, but theywould grow in a' ring around where a tree stump had been. my mom always said they' were not edible. she knew how to find edible mushrooms and we'had mushrooms a lot so I really grew to love them. I never knew how so di not want to poison anyone with my mushroom hunting. lol lol

Grandpa, we have them all over our yard and our pastures. We have had them growing on our property for at least 3 years. They have been very bad this year and last year. We are trying to decide what is wrong with the soil now to make them grow so plentiful when years before we never saw one! I took lots of pictures of them last year and put them on Flickr. Below you will see one of them. I have many different kinds.

Your photograph is very nice!!! I do not have any mushrooms growing near my house. Your mushrooms are really huge!!!

They used to grow in our backyard during rainy days; that was in Manila. They even grow on trunks of the trees. They look beautiful for me; they look like garden ornaments, hehehe...

I used to work at a restaurant in Otago and the puffballs that grew in the area were huge! They would be gathered and delivered to us to cook. I recall one that was past being useful but was bought in for the novelty factor. It weighed about 9 kgs and covered my lap. I was photographed with a 'herd' of puffballs surrounding me lol! The biggy was on my lap.