surprise!

[the_siobhan]

I just went to water my plants and um, what?



Anybody know anything about mushrooms?

Comments

[ysilme]

Just asked my botanist spouse (hobbyist but quite experienced and well-read in all growing things), and he thinks it's not a good sign; mushrooms aren't supposed to grow in potted plants _at all_. Reason might be too humid/too much watering, and repotting it with removing as much of the old soil as possible wouldn't be a bad idea.
Additional question: is there any chance that a domesticated critter has mistaken this as a litterbox? We're always getting mushrooms of such kinds in the most untypical spaces anywhere a cat has sh**t in the garden, so that might be another explanation.

[sylvanwitch]

I get mushrooms in some of my potted plants I keep in our glass solarium and some of them look like that. Usually, they shrivel up into grown husks, often within a day or two of growing. I've never worried about them, and my cats have never bothered them. I recognize that this is merely anecdotal evidence, however, so probably not helpful. ;-)

[greylock]

It's like magic!
I get them all the time outside in winter, popping up randomly.
Never inside.