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Fungal fruiting body

A photo of the fruiting bodies of a fungus that's in quite few of my pots. The 'mushrooms' appear around this time annually.
Any ideas? Is it beneficial?

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Definitely not Psilocybe, Amanita, or Panaeolus, so I don't see any benefits.
 
That would be no benefits that we are aware of at this time? It's certainly not detrimental anyway. Thanks for the reply.
 
Mushrooms are opportunistic. They're exploiting a resource, which is decaying organic material. They're more a symptom of your media breaking down than a problem or benefit in and of themselves.
 
That media has been breaking down since I potted it up 25 years ago :D
 
Well you certainly got your money's worth out of it!
 
Well if peat broke down quickly we wouldn't have any peat bogs to exploit would we?
 
We'd just have to exploit them more quickly!
 
Good thinking :p
 
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Improvise, adapt, overcome.
 
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