It looks like a fat toadstool without a stem. Its centre is slightly spongy
and grey-black in colour. Just wondered what it is and how to kill it.

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Emrys Davies wrote:

It looks like a fat toadstool without a stem. Its centre is slightly spongy
and grey-black in colour. Just wondered what it is and how to kill it.

It could be any one of hundreds, and it makes no difference. You
won't be able to kill it. One of the reasons that roads etc.
need to be very thick is to discourage such fungi.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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In article ,
Emrys Davies wrote:

It looks like a fat toadstool without a stem. Its centre is slightly
spongy
and grey-black in colour. Just wondered what it is and how to kill it.

It could be any one of hundreds, and it makes no difference. You
won't be able to kill it. One of the reasons that roads etc.
need to be very thick is to discourage such fungi.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Thanks a lot. Good to know how I should react to it.

"Emrys Davies" wrote in
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It looks like a fat toadstool without a stem. Its centre is slightly
spongy and grey-black in colour. Just wondered what it is and how to
kill it.


One fungus that regularly grows through asphalt is Agaricus bitorquis.
That looks pretty much like a bog-standard mushroom that you buy in
greengrocers. (That doesn't really match your description very well)

If, and only if, it is A. bitorquis, then eat it and be grateful. If you
have any doubt about its species, then don't eat it - there are similar
looking fungi that will give you a bad stomach ache or much much worse.