Mold or Bruising

Does this look like mold or bruising? Some premature shrooms I found growing in one of my jars. Would like any help as I will probably eat these soon.

Thanks

Please! I know there's at least one expert on the board right now

i would have to say it looks like bruising. but it looks so dark, almost black! hmm im saying a bruise but i would wait for a second opinion. TBH

thats where it sat right against the jar?

yeah most of those spots are where other mushrooms were pushing up against or where the jar was pushing up on. I just took the spawn out of the jar a little late I think. Thanks for the help poly anybody else have an opinion??

here is the final word (well, my final word) on bruising vs mold. The vast majority of the time, the color you see on mold is the sporulating mass at the ends of their mycelial hyphae. If you really want to learn mushrooms, learn all you can from the fungi imperfecti - take a look at a molding pice of fruit or bread - watch closely, you will see white or grey in an expanding circle followed by a bullseye color change - green, blue, pink, orange, black - those are the color of the spores - this is why, when in doubt, if you brush a wet q-tip along the suspected mass it will come away with color - . Your mushroom bruises blue or green (covet the ones that bruise green btw). it is internal to the flesh of the fruit and will not come off.


What you see on that fruit is bruising - and btw, trich is not poisonous, although it doesn't taste very good - that's the forest green stuff.