Inkcaps
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|An impressive mushroom and apparently edible, but become extremely poisonous if eaten and then alcohol is consumed. Apparently one becomes incredibly drunk AND hungover immediately - not my idea of a fun time.
These beautiful and ethereal fungi can pop up from a pile of mulch and be gone within three or four hours, deliquesed away into black ink. Fascinating.
A tiny, delicate mushroom that is incredibly easily overlooked. Identified by the snowy, flaky coating it has.
The Shaggy Ink-Cap! Extremely common, extremely interesting, and extremely tasty.
These, along with the Trooping Funnel, are one of the two fungi I have felt comfortable eating, simply because of how unique they are in appearance.
Find another tall, shaggy, white fungus that dissolves into ink - I bet you can't!
If you do forage them, get them young because they vanish into black goop remarkably fast!