🐾 Shaggy Mane

Coprinus comatus · wildlife atlas entry

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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. The young fruit bodies first appear as white cylinders emerging from the ground, then the bell-shaped caps open out. The caps are white, and covered with scales—this is the origin of the common names of the fungus. The gills beneath the cap are white, then pink, then turn black and... Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.

Shaggy Mane — reference photo from iNaturalist — (c) Tom Norton, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Tom Norton · cc-by

Record card

Scientific name	Coprinus comatus
Rank	species
Community observations	93,983 research-grade records on iNaturalist

Classification

kingdom Fungi › phylum Basidiomycota › class Agaricomycetes › order Agaricales › family Coprinaceae

Seen in the wild — community photographs

Shaggy Mane photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-24 · Liverpool L37 1YD, UK
(c) helsybugs, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Shaggy Mane photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-21 · Dunakeszi, 2120 Magyarország
(c) Attila Kovács, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Shaggy Mane photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-09 · Maple Rd, Acme, PA, US
(c) Kristin Olexa, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Shaggy Mane photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-24 · Gerolstein
(c) Hans Fiedler, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Shaggy Mane photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-24 · 73H7+XJ, 08840, Barcelona, Spain
(c) dvbakke, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Shaggy Mane photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-24 · Buxton Health Centre, Buxton SK17 6HJ, UK
(c) iandalton63, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Shaggy Mane photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-24 · Kent, England, GB
(c) emilypea, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

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