On at least one occasion they have been mistaken for Coprinus comatus.

This poisonous species can sometimes be confused with the edible Coprinus comatus.

Coprinus comatus is the best known of the true Coprinus.

Notably, Coprinus comatus does not, but it is best to avoid mixing alcohol with other members of this genus.

Coprinus comatus is the type species for the genus Coprinus.

A Coprinus comatus extract inhibited adenocarcinoma in vitro.

Coprinus comatus, the Shaggy mane.

Coprinus comatus (Ink cap)

Some fungal air-bourne allergens such as coprinus comatus are associated with worsening of eczematous skin lesions.

However, the type species of Coprinus, Coprinus comatus, and a few other species, were found to be more closely related to Agaricaceae.

"California Fungi: Coprinus comatus", MykoWeb.com.

Coprinus is a small genus of mushrooms consisting of Coprinus comatus (the shaggy mane) and several of its close relatives.

Fruiting bodies have the appearance of an unopened Coprinus comatus, with a stipe and a loose, brown to blackish powdery gleba at maturity.

Fungus of the Month for May 2004: Coprinus comatus, the shaggy mane by Tom Volk, TomVolkFungi.net.

Another technique is to stun the nematodes using toxins, which is a method employed by Coprinus comatus, Stropharia rugosoannulata, and the family Pleurotaceae.

Although considered by many to be a "stalked puffball", Podaxis pistillaris is more closely allied with the shaggy mane (Coprinus comatus) than with puffballs.

Coprinus comatus, the shaggy ink cap, lawyer's wig, or shaggy mane, is a common fungus often seen growing on lawns, along gravel roads and waste areas.

Coprinus comatus (Shaggy Ink Cap) decomposes into ink, and hence must be prepared soon after picking and only young specimens should be collected.

SHAGGY MANE Latin name: Coprinus comatus.

C. micaceus has been found to be devoid of the toxin coprine, the Antabuse-mimicking chemical found in Coprinus comatus that causes illness when consumed simultaneously with alcohol.

Molecular phylogenetic investigation found that Coprinus comatus was only a distant relative of the other members of Coprinus, and was closer to genera in the Agaricaceae.

Since Coprinus comatus is the type species of Coprinus, only that species and its close relatives C. sterquilinus and C. spadiceisporus retained the name of the genus.

It typically fruits in a narrow window from June to July; this spring and early summer fruiting distinguishes it from the more common Coprinus comatus and Coprinopsis atramentaria, which produce fruit bodies in late autumn.

Gary Lincoff, the author of "The National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms" (Alfred A. Knopf, 1981), said it is probably Coprinus comatus, commonly known as the shaggy mane.

Lawns, farms and parklands see exotic fungi such as the shaggy ink cap (Coprinus comatus), the poisonous Chlorophyllum molybdites and several species of Agaricus, including the edible A. bisporus and A. campestris as well as mildly poisonous A. xanthodermus.

The other bore a great shaggy cap or helmet from which sprang buffalo horns.

From above, it may be confused with the old man of the woods (Strobilomyces strobilaceus) as both have a similar shaggy cap.

Tholie told him the word for the shaggy cap mushroom in her language and in Sharamudoi.

Characterised by a distinctive reddish shaggy cap, it grows in eucalypt woodlands.

Boletellus emodensis, commonly known as the shaggy cap, is a species of fungus in the family Boletaceae.

Two white birds with long black shaggy caps, forked tails and black, yellow-tipped beaks zipped eastwards towards the rising sun.

Differences from the parasol mushroom include its smaller dimensions, pungent (fruity) and reddening flesh when cut, lack of patterns on its stipe, and very shaggy cap surface.

Sean was dressed in a cloak of colobus monkey skins and he wore Somali sandals of elephant hide on his feet and a shaggy cap of monkey skin covered his obviously Caucasian hair.