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What the eff is this black goo on my plant?

 
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Guys! Seriously what the heck is this!?

It's the only plant in my garden that has these weird little sprout things with the black stuff coming out of them.

I don't even know what this is because my friend just gave me a bunch of seeds. A squash or cucumber or something I'm assuming?

But yeah.. What the heck?!
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It kind of looks like a fungus feeding off your wood chips.

Not quite a stinkhorn...
 
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Is that a good or bad thing?

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I have seen mushrooms like these growing in acidic much under pine trees and they make that Black ink substance, I wouldn't worry though, I had a fungus called Tapioca Slime, came in because of the mulch layer in the garden, so dont panic, instead try referring to a field guide if you can, or simply study through observation.
Like Sepp Holzer says: we should try reading the book of nature.
https://permies.com/t/47340/fungi/Tapioca-slime
 
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It looks like the remnants of a Coprinopsis_atramentaria
They often pop up in straw mulch after the rain, but there are lots of sub species and some stick around longer than others.
I've never found them to be a problem in my garden spaces. It' seems to me that they are just turning straw into plant food.

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I agree with Craig. Looks like a variety of ink cap mushroom. That inky mess is actually a spore slurry, which the fungus uses for reproduction. They're totally harmless; you can even eat certain varieties before they turn inky. Like Craig said, they're just helping break down organic matter in the garden.

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Cool! Thanks for helping me out everyone.

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This stuff on my pants looks like miniture pile of poop.
It turned my plants black there dead.. I would have loved to set a picture of it.
 
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Yes, those are small mushrooms growing on mulch/compost. I often have them when I use store-bought compost. I think it's the one called Coprinopsis nivea, in English Snowy inkcap (but there are other small inkcap mushrooms too)
But that mushroom does not do any damage to the plants.

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Cassie Langstraat wrote:Guys! Seriously what the heck is this!?

It's the only plant in my garden that has these weird little sprout things with the black stuff coming out of them.

I don't even know what this is because my friend just gave me a bunch of seeds. A squash or cucumber or something I'm assuming?

But yeah.. What the heck?!



I forgot the name of it but it’s a type mushroom (inky cap, I believe…?). As far as I know it’s harmless, I’ve mainly seen it growing in decomposing straw. It grow like a standard mushroom, then the cap “dissolves” into an inky goo
 
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