I need to identify a mushroom found in my garden, can someone help me?

This mushroom was growing right up next to my sage. It was a cluster of tubular, sorta cup shaped brownish mushroom. It was kinda neat looking, then it just grossed me out. Can someone help me find a website with lots of photos to compare? It's still there, I don't know if I can just pluck it out or will I need to pull up my sage too and redo the soil there.

I need to identify a mushroom found in my garden, can someone help me?
Because you haven't supplied a photo from which to make a positive ID, about the best I can do is have you go to this site 1. ** and check off any of the characteristic of your fungus with their appropriate match. The engine will then return several fungi that it has narrowed your search down to. Btw, the more details you provide, the shorter the return list you'll have to choose from. Or....you can send me a picture if you can get it.



As for pulling out your plants out for fear of contamination or disease, that is really not much of a concern. All you see when you spot a mushroom is the fruit structure, with the mushroom being nothing more than a means to eject spores into the wind. The actual body of the "plant" is underground, is likely perennial, very widespread, and has long had some kind of symbiotic relationship going with your other plants, a relationship from which both benefit greatly. (Indeed, some simply won't grow without the presence of the other. Many trees and their seedlings must have a symbiotic partner or they will almost surely be less vigorous than seedlings that don't. They will soon to be crowded out by those that do have the mutual (mycorrhizal )relationship. Professional Foresters plant trees with the roots already "infected" with a carefully selected partner fungus. Without it, they will grow to be spindly, thirsty, and soon find itself dying in the shade of its stronger, mycorrhizal-rooted kin.



I guess what I'm trying to say is that wild mushrooms have gotten a raw deal in terms of Public Relations. Fungi are not nearly as poisonous in their numbers (of species safe to eat relative to poisonous ones) or as parasitic as they've somehow all come to be regarded.



Gary Williams
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http://www.gardenbythesea.org/about/mush...

http://www.capsandstems.com/id.htm
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