The Ultimate "What is this Fungi?" thread.

awarner

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Cheers Geoff, time for more homework to read more into inkcap/brittle stem differences, to the novice they look similar, I can imagine the fun you must have had when you first started out pre-internet forums boom as such.
 

Geoff Dann

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Cheers Geoff, time for more homework to read more into inkcap/brittle stem differences, to the novice they look similar, I can imagine the fun you must have had when you first started out pre-internet forums boom as such.

Just have to take it slowly, which didn't matter so much at the time, because there was no peer pressure to know anything more than I actually knew!
 

Fraxinus

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fraxinus: the bolete is a bay bolete. Not sure about the last ones.
Cheers Geoff it was the greenness of it that got me stumped. If that makes any sense.

Got a couple more from the other day and one from this morning.
These are in the same field as the Parasols and Stubble Rosegill's

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From the pathside through the woods

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and last one that had been disturbed.

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Rob.
 

Fraxinus

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Oct 26, 2008
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Thanks Geoff. I take it that they need to be cooked to be safe to eat.
Where I have found these and the Parasol's and Stubble's is where I work and have permission to forage and shoot.
The one's in the woods I have no permission so they stay put and are for my education only.
Appreciate your time and effort in replying to everyone's posts on here.
Rob.
 

awarner

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Apr 14, 2012
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No those arent fairy inkcaps, I think they are probably Clustered Brittlestems and the other thing is a brown rollrim
Last one is Armillaria species

Reading up on the clustered brittlestems the gills according to the Roger Philllips book state they should be brown but these are more white? would they turn brown later and white when new as the fairy inkcap is described as having white gills even though the picture in his book show them as dark?

Getting a bit confused
 

awarner

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Stuck again but wondering if the first images are possibly a Blue Roundhead? the greenish base at the stem and the blue/green tinge cap seems to elude me.

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Found this one some time ago but the deep colour of the cap lost me, perhaps I'm being too literal in my searching

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Finally this was growing on some hazel, closest I could find was Hypochicium vellerum but that is not found in Britain?

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awarner

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The closest to this I can find is Candle Snuff/Stagg's Horn?

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Not looked into the id of the next one just like the way it grows out of the twig so I thought I would post it

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Thanks awarner. Is the following horseshoe fungus?
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Is the following cramp ball fungus?
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If I'm correct with these I'll be so chuffed. This wonderful site will have helped me ID horseshoe, cramp ball, and birch polypore, and the first steps of my bushcraft journey amongst the British flora will have begun. :D
 

awarner

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Ahh sorry thought they were all the same just different angles which confused me.
The cramp balls general will be on ash if you split it open it should have concentric rings, great for firelighting. The hoof fungus I expect to be more on beech/hornbeam but the bark on the first image appears to be from birch.
On further reading it appears it is more common on birch in Scotland and the north of England and then changing to beech in the south. I wonder whether there are two sub-species of hoof fungus?
 

awarner

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Completely stumped on this little chap, Found this on a cut section of fallen oak that is resting in a reed bed so this must have some brackish water tolerance?
The overall size is approximately 2.5-3cm across and with the bell shaped body I cannot find anything similar in my books.

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