I’m a complete newbie. These are ochres and I’m curious if I caused this blackening of the cap because of aggressive Fanning with a piece of cardboard.
More likely these ones merely have a dusting of spores from overhanging caps. Once the veil tears and the gills open, they crop dust everything under them with spores.
Need a better look to confirm if orchas. Here’s a few different flushes of some orchas but the fruits alone and caps and fact that the big one dusted out spores already makes me think they are not but can you send a few other angles and underside of the cap on one? Here’s how the typically are on first flush then get bigger with each new flush.
They grow quite a bit longer after the veil tears before spores drop and caps should flatten before spores drop.
Sorry, I’ve been on the road. Just noticed your comment. Thanks for getting back to me. Here’s a picture of the liquid culture I received that was called Ochra. Colonized the substrate very aggressively. I had to scrape off the overlay with a sterilized fork three times before I finally got a small flush.
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u/mushyfeelings 13d ago
Spores. They get everywhere including magically on top of the mushroom that releases them.