3408. Shaggy Mane mushrooms seen on Mar 17, 2018 8am

Mar 17, 2018  8am 

Easy to recognise as Shaggy Mane mushrooms tend to grow in tight groups.
See video:

 

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Mar 17, 2018   1 am  Shaggy Mane mushrooms as follows:

Zoom lens used. Chair support.  Porch light at 1 am. 

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Mar 16, 2018 at 11 pm when I reached home. See mushrooms at early stage of growth.

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Mar 17, 18  11.30pm  Near midnight.
All mushrooms had wilted.

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 Sat Mar 17, 2018

Shaggy Mane (Coprinus comatus) mushrooms tend to grow in a tight group.


The Shaggy Mane, also known as the Lawyers Wig, is a mushroom. It has a tendency to grow in tight groups. Shaggy Mane (Coprinus comatus) has an elongated bullet shaped, shaggy cap, with brownish upturned scales and a straight fairly smooth stem.

Cap Shaggy, scaly, whitish,1-2 inches wide, 2-6 inches tall becomes black inky and gooey as it expands eventually leaving just the stem. Scales are upturned, whitish tan to reddish brown.

Gills (lamellae) White, close, free gills that eventually becoming black and inky.

Stem (stipe) Fibrous, hollow, straight white to tannish stem with a partial veil on the lower to middle area. It usually tapers somewhat becoming slight thinner near the top.

Flesh White, quite soft and easily broken.

Spores Black spores

Reference
http://mushroom-collecting.com/mushroomshaggy.html

See blog for detailed images
http://2010vets.blogspot.sg/2018/03/3408-shaggy-mane-mushrooms-seen-on-mar.html

3407. Shaggy mane mushrooms on Mar 15, 2018 8am

Mar 15, 2018  8am mushrooms
Mainly a set of 4 mushrooms in various stage of growth was seen today.They wilted by late afternoon.

3406. Mushrooms on Mar 16, 2018 8am

Mar 16, 2018  8 am mushrooms

By 5 pm, these mushrooms had disappeared (wilted) under the hot afternoon sun.


Video

3405. Mushrooms seen March 16, 2018 at 11 pm and March 17, at 1 am

Mar 16, 2018  11pm

Mar 17, 2018  1am mushrooms

3404. X-rays. A 6-month-old guinea pig died from pregnancy complications

Mar 15, 2018

Guinea pig, F, 6m
Anorexia 2 days. Separated from male 2 days
37.9C (Normal 37-39C)

I palpated 3 large foetal lumps over 5 inches long.
X-rays - 3 pups, gastric distension with gas
Died around 10 hours after admission.


Sow was too young and light to be bred.
Ideally, sows should be 6 months old and more than 750 g body weight.

3403. *Narrative. A 2.5-year-old dwarf hamster has a gigantic right hind led tumour

Mar 15, 2018


"I googled 'hamster surgery Singapore', the young lady of around late 30s and her husband came to Toa Payoh Vets. She told me that the hamster was 2 years and 6 months old but later said the real age was 1 year and 9 months. .

After surgery, she recalled that she was 1 year and 9 months old. A lot of difference for dwarf hamsters whose life span is 2.5 to 3 years.

Electro-surgery. Big nasty tumour, as in the pet mouse operated yesterday by me. 4/0 stitches.

Right-hind tumour in a pet mouse and hamster were the same medical condition but two of a kind.

The hamster went home to a happy couple. There was another tumour under the right arm pit. Will need to operate 2 to 4 weeks later before it grows gigantic and prevented movement.  Biting off stitches is likely.

This hamster has arthritis joints (see video). A rare condition of arthritis seen by me as I had not seen arthrititic joints in over 1000 dwarf hamster consultations.

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A pet mouse had similar located tumour but a gigantic one.