Total fungi newbie here. I bought some stropharia spawn (https://www.silvertreeforest.com/products/wine-cap-mushroom-spawn) and mixed it in my wood chips last year. Now these are popping up, so assuming that’s what they are makes sense, but they don’t look just like the pics I’m seeing mostly online -- more brown and less burgundy. Thoughts?
I make my own wine cap spawn and they grow all over my garden. They will come out different shades sometimes. I think it's based on age, moisture and sunlight. Here's some old and young ones I grow.
Most of ours look like that. The only time I've ever seen a deep wine sort of colour was right after emergence, before the caps started to open and spread. They tend to be more in the tan to brown range here, with a silvery grey cast much of the time.
I know this is a month late, but those certainly look like Wine Caps. And you are absolutely dead-on correct in that once they decide to pop up, they really decide to pop up all over the place.
Eric
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