Dainty-eatin' Fungi

The shaggy-mane mushroom Coprinus comatus has a cap that peels and curls up like an old-style lawyer's wig. To complete the resemblance, it deliquesces into a puddle of ink if given the chance.

Through the Whiskypedia I learned that C. comatus is one of those carnivorous mushrooms that have been covered in earlier issues of Riddled (builds week-by-week into a comprehensive encyclopedia of gibberish):

Most of the P. redivivus added to the cultures on PDA and CMA were immobilized within 8 h. Many of the nematodes transferred to a drop of water by hand moved feebly, but one hardly could recover or survive. When the nematodes were immobilized (i.e. they were very weak or dead) the hyphae of LHA-7 grew toward and wounded the nematodes. [...] Transmission electron micrographs revealed a detailed infection process, concerning how a nematode was colonized by C. comatus hyphae grew from an infected nematode [...] After penetration of hyphae, the content of a nematode was digested in days and the nematode was occupied fully by the hyphal body.*

To save time in future I will simply catch nematodes and fry them up with butter directly, missing out the middle-man .
We also learn through the Pickyweedia that the old ink-cap family is no longer together. "The majority of species of Coprinus were therefore reclassified into three genera placed in Psathyrellaceae: Coprinellus, Coprinopsis, and Parasola."

The reason given for the family break-up was an argument about who was entitled to which knick-knacks after Aunt Mabel's funeral, but you can be sure that there were dysfunctional family relationships already in place.

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* Moar fungus:

In the first stage hyphae grew toward and pressed onto the cuticle of the nematode; then a penetration peg was formed [PG]; in the third stage the hyphae penetrated nematode cuticle with the peg and rapidly colonized the body...

HAWT.