Banana for scale. I was a little late to the party as it looks like something munched on it.
Found beside our raised garden bed on Vancouver Island. Not sure species, any guesses from the experts out there?
This is my first photo posted on Lemmy so excuse the amateur effort.
It looks like a mushroom trying to make a phone call on a banana.
I wasn't expecting the banana for scale, it made me laugh. Thank you!
I was going to ask for a banana for a scale and I was surprised that OP actually placed a banana in the picture. This also made me laugh.
Looks like a deer chomped it and was possibly spooked before it could finish? Are there tracks around the area?
I was thinking it was a deer also and maybe our dog spooked him off before he finished his meal. We have a lot of blacktail deer here. They eat everything, and our landscaping reflects their appetite.
Yeah, I'd guess it took the first test bite from the front right (hence the gills left intact) and then a more confident chomp from the left. Both are from an upper angle, and the teeth seem far too large for anything smaller that might nosh on rando fungi (raccoons, squirrels, rabbits, etc.), so your local blacktail are my bet. 🤓
Chomp, nosh,.... Please do continue. I am immensely enjoying your use of words I haven't heard in a while. :)
Ha! I enjoy the vibrant diversity of the English language and do try to paint with it sometimes. Besides, my gramma always said, "Don't use the same word twice in short succession. That's lazy." 😅
She is very wise. 😆
I'm not a mycologist, but it looks a bit like a pavement mushroom I found in Norway. But that looks bigger. Probably something like agaricus arvensis, but I'm not a mycologist and only have a slight interest in the field. The real answer is it's probably an agaricus of some type or another, but don't eat it.
agaricus was my thought too
Thanks for your input and narrowing it down to agaricus. Agaricus augustus seems more prevalent in our area and matches the description on local online sites. This species is apparently edible but I'm afraid this particular one is well past its prime picking time.