Fungi at Speke Hall (PICS)

[Spikey DaPikey]

Had a walk round Speke Hall today in Liverpool. Decided to go fungi spotting, even though i know next to nothing about them :lol I did happen to meet a bloke for the North West Fungi Association though, but i've forgot most of the names !!

Anyway, here are a few shots, and there are some more in the link at the end

Hope you like them !! Oh yeah, all shots took on my mobile phone (W900i)

More pics here: http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v662/ ... ike/Walks/

 

[andyn]

cool. So much coming out now!

Again off top of my head:

1. looks like honey fungus
2. No idea
3. Shaggy Ink Cap
4. Parrot wax cap?
5. Dunno.

 

[Spikey DaPikey]

cool. So much coming out now!

Again off top of my head:

1. looks like honey fungus
2. No idea
3. Shaggy Ink Cap
4. Parrot wax cap?
5. Dunno.

Yup, number 4 is a Parrot wax cap, remembered that because of the strange name ! Number 3 is right as well

I'm gonna get the Gem book of mushrooms and fungi soon, so i can work it out for meslf !

 

[Shewie]

I`d go for St Georges for number 5, not 100% though !!


Rich

 

[xylaria]

I dunno what the bottom one is.
I know what the rest are, but you look like you having fun IDing them, so I'll tell you later.

 

[Matt Weir]

I`d go for St Georges for number 5, not 100% though !!


Rich

Aren't St Georges 'shrooms so called because their short season starts about St Georges day (April 23rd)?

 

[Shewie]

Aren't St Georges 'shrooms so called because their short season starts about St Georges day (April 23rd)?

Good point Matt, as I said not 100%

I`ll get me coat

:sulkoff:

 

[Matt Weir]

Good point Matt, as I said not 100%

I`ll get me coat

:sulkoff:

Not at all - I only know what they aren't at least you had a go. I'm just a nay-sayer

 

[xylaria]

Go on matt see if you can do number 2 Andyn is right on the rest me thinks

Anyone else not CHICKEN enough to ID it want to give it a go.

To make sure something is honey fungus, the gills should run down the stem slightly and spore is white. Nearly every look like to it has gills that attach latrally or are detacthed and the spore prints are brown.

The bottom is whats known in trade as an LBM, a little brown mushroom, very few are eaten. The picture could be fairy ring champigion but it could just as easly be a host of different fungi that could put you in hospital.

 

[Matt Weir]

Go on matt see if you can do number 2 Andyn is right on the rest me thinks

Anyone else not CHICKEN enough to ID it want to give it a go.

If I say Polypore am I near the mark?