The Ultimate "What is this Fungi?" thread.

fungi2bwith

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I'm fairly sure these are bay boletus, growing on a Devon hedgebank under a beach tree. The flesh flushed lightly green/blue on cutting as do the pores when pressed.

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Yes these are bay boletes. Very tasty. Still not much here in N.Hants
 
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Paulm

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May 27, 2008
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Agreed,a distinct lack of fungi in my neck of North Hampshire still, and in the New Forest last week where I spent a week camping and cycling and hoped for some mushroomy breakfast fry ups but had to make do with porridge pots instead !!!

Cheers, Paul
 

Geoff Dann

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are any of these edible ? View attachment 12495

OK, we've had this debate before, but I think we need to have it again. If you have no idea whether any of these are edible, why did you pick ALL of them??

Do you have any idea whether they are rare? Or protected?

The answer is that you picked all of them because you hoped they were edible and knew you could post pictures here and get them identified. Some people do not agree with this, but I have a moral problem with telling you what they are, because I do not want to encourage people to pick lots of mushrooms when they have no idea what they are.

Fortunately, these aren't rare. They aren't edible either.
 
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Paddytray

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sorry . I do see your point and I will learn before I get carried away next time.
however in my defence most of the photos I've taken where ones that kids where kicking about the campsite my boys just collected them up to be I.d'd . I picked two of the big ones in belief that they where edible .
 
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Geoff Dann

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sorry . I do see your point and I will learn before I get carried away next time.

OK. For the record, they're called "spindle shanks".

I'm not sure about the boletes, but they look like bitter boletes, which aren't edible. The bell-shaped one is one of the grisettes and the little ones are common fieldcaps.
 
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Geoff Dann

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If anyone is interested, I'm going to be mushrooming on the TV, and I've now found out some more information.

There is a new series starting tonight on Channel 4 called "Food Unwrapped". It goes out each of the next 8 mondays. Each episode contains two 15-minute stories exploring the realities of food production around the world. I don't know which of them it will be (not tonight's) but one of these stories is about wild mushroom soup, and I take the presenter foraging for mushrooms. I'll let people know when I find out which week I'm going to be on.

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http://www.channel4.com/info/press/programme-information/watch-what-you-eat

Episode 3 - Monday 24th September, 8:30pm, Channel 4

How can soup manufacturers claim we're eating Wild Mushroom Soup - containing just 0.9% wild mushrooms? Matt Tebbutt meets a professional wild mushroom forager in the woods of West Sussex, who sniffs out a wild mushroom ring and explains that wild mushrooms need host trees so cannot be farmed on the scale the supermarkets need. Luckily, a meeting with a supplier of wild mushrooms to the food industries reveals that wild mushrooms are very strong-flavoured. So are our Wild Mushroom Soups wild enough? To verify this, Martin Dickie heads to Trading Standards to ask how food producers can get away with putting under 1% wild mushrooms in a wild mushroom product.
 
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Chiseller

Bushcrafter through and through
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First ink cap of the year for me :thumbup:
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Poached egg an mushroom on brown cob toast for breakfast :D

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mercurykev

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Sep 6, 2011
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Found near Linn of Dee, under Scots Pine in moss and Blaeberry undergrownth. I think that I've narrowed them down to Cortinarius caperatus (gypsy mushroom) ? There were others that had opened up and flattened out a bit


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Paulm

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Had a brief look round my usual patch in North Hampshire this afternoon, still nothing, except for a solitary yellow russella of some kind :(

Usually orange and brown birch boletes, bay boletes, porcini and chanterelles, perhaps some chicken of the woods too ( of the edible types), but nothing still :(

Hoping it picks up at some stage or maybe it's just going to be a quiet season.....

Cheers, Paul
 

Geoff Dann

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Had a brief look round my usual patch in North Hampshire this afternoon, still nothing, except for a solitary yellow russella of some kind :(

Usually orange and brown birch boletes, bay boletes, porcini and chanterelles, perhaps some chicken of the woods too ( of the edible types), but nothing still :(

Hoping it picks up at some stage or maybe it's just going to be a quiet season.....

Cheers, Paul

It has been a very wet summer, so the season is ramping up rather than exploding into life. I've been out in the Ashdown Forest today. Not a lot about. I saw three blushers, two bay boletes, some matt boletes, giant polypore, a couple of russulas and one absolutely enormous specimen of Boletus radicans. My guidebooks list these as maximum of 15-18cm; this was a 25cm monster.
 
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mercurykev

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Nice find, if that's what it is. I've never found it. :)

There were quite a few of them in a patch of woods where I picked a fair few Chanterelles last month. A web search suggests that one of their known habitats is the Forest of Marr, which is where I found these specimens, so they might very well be Gypsies.
 

Chiseller

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Fungitron won't identity this :eek: growing on hard ground in a mostly birch wood.
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Smells sort of mealy
Cheers

And this? Boletus badius?
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Thanks again
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daveO

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Jun 22, 2009
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There's a mushroom growing in with my celeriacs in the raised bed. I'm hoping it's a giant puffball but thought I should check. I thought some kids had kicked a football into the garden :eek:

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