Shaggy ink cap

How most shaggy ink caps look by the time I find them!

Rose Ellenby. Coprinus comatus (The Shaggy Ink Cap). Original drawing for Plate 11 to Edible Fungi by John Ramsbottom, published London 1943.

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Shaggy ink cap mushrooms

Shaggy Ink Caps Spithandle Woods

Mushrooms and fungi are very familiar to most of us, love them or hate them, they're known to most for their culinary or medicinal uses, or perhaps as annoying mould or the yeast we use to bake. It's a safe bet to assume that nearly anyone's heard of them, seen them, used them, tasted them,

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Last week I spent a few days camping on a woodland site. One of the many magical things I discovered was a small clump of Shaggy Ink Cap mushrooms (Coprinas comatus), which although fairly common, I hadn't seen before (perhaps because they only last a very short time). I decided to collect their ink and then draw them with it… It's not difficult to make Mushroom Ink from Ink Cap's, I leaned how from the Natural History Museum (kids only!) website here. First sighting - already past their…

Coprinus Comatus, the Shaggy Ink Cap, Lawyer's Wig, or Shaggy Mane