Found these in our minis' paddock this morning. Didn't like the looks of them and neither did the minis. But as it turns out, they are quite edible BEFORE they start dissolving themselves.
According to Wikiwand: The shaggy ink cap was first described by Danish naturalist Otto Friedrich Müller in 1780 as Agaricus comatus, before being given its current binomial name in 1797 by Christiaan Hendrik Persoon. Its specific name derives from coma, or "hair", hence comatus, "hairy" or "shaggy".[3] Other common names include lawyer's wig,[3] and shaggy mane.
Coprinus comatus is the type species for the genus Coprinus. This genus was formerly considered to be a large one with well over 100 species. However, molecular analysis of DNA sequences showed that the former species belonged in two families, the Agaricaceae and the Psathyrellaceae.[4] Coprinus comatus is the best known of the true Coprinus.
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