Midlands Meet Mushrooms! (pic heavy)

[firecrest]

I didnt take any photos while I was there, but due to their being so many mushrooms, and us having lots of little ID books, I learnt several new ones and even tasted a couple too. heres ones I learnt or saw for the first time....

Note: Don't eat any just because it looks like the ones eaten here, many mushrooms have similar poisonous cousins.

First one, thanks to Wayland showing us all we could eat these ominous looking things
Amethyst Deceiver

Common Puffball

shaggy parasol

NON EDIBLE! MUSHROOMS!
Stinkhorn. Those strange little jelly eggs we found were definately stinkhorn

stinkhorn "egg"

candlesnuff

Poisonous but pretty, I found a few patches whislt lost somewhere.

Fly Agaric

These were quite near the main fire, I was suprised I didnt notice them until the last day.
Anyone remember anymore?

 

[spamel]

A few from me. First up is, I am sure, a Death Cap. It looks to be all white in the picture, but it was dark under the canopy. Thre cap had a green tinge to it, sort of olive like.

I will obviously prefer the expert opinions though, mine is just a simple guess!



Unknown, funky looking!

 

[firecrest]

glad to see somebody took photos! i forgot my camera, which is a shame because I like to photograph things and compair them online to mushrooms , that way I can view several different specimens, not just one photo. Ill have a look for these that you posted.

 

[Arvensis]

That one you think is a death cap is in fact Amanita citrina the 'false death cap'. They are fairly easy to confuse... just as well A. citrina is inedible!

The main difference between both is that A. phalloides has a distinct volval sack at the base compared to A. citrina with has a basal bulb with no 'sack' which is well illustrated in first picture.