(other photos were taken of the cap to get better detail, but not uploaded here since it would have been too many photos)
Gilled mushroom. Found growing out of a bale of straw that had gotten wet and mouldy at the bottom
Cap shape – cuspidate
Cap margin – split
Cap surface features – fibrillose (thready)
Partial veil features – na
Attachment of gils – Emarginate
Breadth of gills – narrow
Gill spacing – crowded to close
Edges of gills – fringed (slightly, might be even, hard to tell since they were so dark)
Location of stem – central
Shapes of stems – flexuous
Bulbs and volvas na
Stem surface -smooth
Potential ID – Had some interesting features of having a hollow stipe (picked the mushroom due to it not being wanted on the straw) and part of the cap turning into a dark liquid like ink when I put it down on a table for a moment. Potentially the wolly ink cap, Coprinus lagopus in it’s last stage where the cap turns black. The substrate also is consistant with this, as it was found in straw which I think is similar enough to the bark and leaf compost it is known to live on. However since it is rare to see the dark caps still attached to the stipe this could be evidence against this id, but the stalk was incredibly flimsy so it may have just not fallen yet and out of the three I could see, one had actually lost it’s cap. So this may still be a wolly ink cap. (Flora and Fauna of coastal BC)
I think this one looked really neat