And now the much anticipated results of our spore printing experiment *grin* They turned out awesome!
This mushroom is the one that left the above spore print and I thought that I might have had 2 names that if might have been: Common Laccaria (Laccaria laccata) or the Bleeding Mycena (Mycena haematopus) but both of these leave a white spore print and as you can see the one I have left me a lovely brown spore print so I'm back at square one!
Here is a different spore print that we got and again it was a brown print. Do you see the lines running horizontally along it? There were teeny tiny little worms in the cap when we lifted it and the must have been traveling around and left behind those interesting trails :)
And this is our last print which unfortunately left a white spore print on my white paper instead of on the black paper where it would have shown up much better :( I actually thought that this mushroom and the one above this one were the same but again the spore print doesn't lie so I have got 2 different mushrooms indeed!
In our mushroom guide it said that many mushrooms are so similar that the only way to correctly identify them is by their spore prints so we have proved that theory to be correct since nothing I thought we had was right *grin* Now you can see why it is never a good idea to eat any mushrooms even when you think you have correctly identified them unless you have been shown by an expert that truly knows their stuff!!!
If you do your own spore prints please let me know so that we can come and check yours out :)
