Glistening Ink Cap - Coprinellus micaceus

This mushroom grows in large numbers, the brown caps are bell shaped flattening out with age, with striations and what look like grains of salt on the cap that glisten in the sunlight (these can be washed off by rain). As the cap ages it becomes blackish from the cap edge up to the centre, as the spores mature the cap liquifies to release the spores. The gills are white becoming purplish brown as they age and black when they’re liquifying. The stem is white becoming brownish towards the base and very brittle often snapping under the weight of the cap when picked.