Fungi ID please.

[wanderinstar]

Where I take my dog for a walk there are fungi growing round the base of a tree.
Can anyone help out. xylaria where are you?

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[addo]

Looks like Honey Fungus mate.

 

[Toadflax]

I'd be inclined towards honey fungus, though your ones are much more scaly that the ones I found and ate http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25787. Then again, I believe that honey fungus covers a number of closely related species, some of which have scaly stems.


Geoff

 

[Matt Weir]

Whatever you do don't eat those!!!


The evidence says they are full of dog pee

 

[bushtank]

looks like golden scale-head {pholiota aurivellus} to me mate was good to meet you at last

 

[ady05]

looks like shaggy scalycap (pholiota squarrosa) not edible have some growing localy

 

[xylaria]

looks like golden scale-head {pholiota aurivellus} to me mate was good to meet you at last

looks like shaggy scalycap (pholiota squarrosa) not edible have some growing localy

Like what these people said.

Honey fungus has very pale gills, and white spores, the gills are decurrent (run down the stem slightly). Pholiotas on the other hand have brown gills and brown spores. The gill attached themsleves to the stem at a right angle (adnate) or turn upwards to meet the stem (adnexed).

I have tasted a pholiota in mistake for a honey fungus, it tasted like earwax. So I learned just because the lower ones are cover in white dust it doesn't mean you should do a spore print.