I can't identify it. You might have to give it a day or two so the cap forms and see if you can figure it out. You might also take a couple back the nursery and have them identify it once it matures a bit more.
I'm sure you know this but just in case, don't eat it or let anyone else eat it (kids/dogs) until you know for certain it isn't poisonous. (Esp as it's growing in your edible herb pot, make sure no one eats it by mistake.)
No idea. But I have to admire the ability of mushrooms to spring up overnight into vigorous communities! They do that on my front lawn sometimes after a rainstorm.
Those are cute. You'll need to let the mushroom mature a bit, before identifying. Even then, IDing them can be tricky. It reminds me of a mushroom that sprung up overnight in a friend's pot once -- it glowed!
I found a rare strain of amanita mushroom in our local dog park once, which I believe was Amanita muscaria var. formosa -- the spores had blown in and they sprung up overnight all around the conifers in the park, like the fairy rings you hear of in forest fantasies. Toxic but very beautiful. Apparently the closest previous sighting to our area was ~74 kilometres south, several years prior, showing that spores can be blown a great distance, and take hold very quickly in the right conditions. Usually damp/wet/fertilised, and in the amanita's case, had the right trees growing in that boggy environment after three days' rain, and some dog poop to set it off.
As others have said you need to see the cap, it's shape, how it is attached to the stalk, the texture, the colour, whether it has gills, pores or the ridgy things I can't remember the name of that morels have, and if it's not one of the really distinctive ones you need to do a spore print. The spore prnt thing is fun (well I think it is) proper mycologists have paper that is half black and half white and place the harvested cap over the divide so the spores fall on both blck and white because the various off whites are easierr to distinguish on black while the various browns are easier to distinguish on white. Oh and you need to cover the cap with a glass or the like while you wait (usually overnght) for it to sporulate so it doesn't dry out. To get both the shape of the capa nd how the gills are attached to the stalk you need to slice the mushroom in half down through the stalk and cap, then you can see the type of join as well as the shape of the rim of the cap.
It's Holy Week. Which means extra services, and music for those services,and rehearsals for those services, and more washing and drying and ironing because of the extra services (I sweat in my choir vestments) and so there's not going to be any spore print from these mushrooms because by the time the second service for Easter is over (it's actually the third or fourth, but the choir I'm in sings only two of the Easter Sunday ones) a house guest will have arrived and is staying several days. And we have a full schedule of activities planned, including making bread and figuring out how best to cook the chunks of wild pig Rancherfriend brought me a day ago. So intense work on fungi will have to wait for another eruption. I do have pics of the caps as open as they were today. They were picture book cute.
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I'm sure you know this but just in case, don't eat it or let anyone else eat it (kids/dogs) until you know for certain it isn't poisonous. (Esp as it's growing in your edible herb pot, make sure no one eats it by mistake.)
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I found a rare strain of amanita mushroom in our local dog park once, which I believe was Amanita muscaria var. formosa -- the spores had blown in and they sprung up overnight all around the conifers in the park, like the fairy rings you hear of in forest fantasies. Toxic but very beautiful. Apparently the closest previous sighting to our area was ~74 kilometres south, several years prior, showing that spores can be blown a great distance, and take hold very quickly in the right conditions. Usually damp/wet/fertilised, and in the amanita's case, had the right trees growing in that boggy environment after three days' rain, and some dog poop to set it off.
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I love fungi.
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