The Ultimate "What is this Fungi?" thread.

[21st century pict]

I went for a walk up the hills yesterday and found 2 very nice mushrooms in a peat bog; I did some research when I got home but still have a couple o questions and if anyone could help that would be great CHEERS ... Hint Hint GD.
Can anyone tell me the UK name for Lichenomphalia umbellifera Roger Phillips has got it down as Heath Navel and Thomas Laessoe has it as a Turf Navel-Cap?
Lichenomphalia umbellifera a very weird fungi this one, half mushroom - half lichen ?


2nd mushroom and 2nd question; When I got home I went through the Roger Phillips book and no joy, I then tried his online ID but no joy there also, can anyone help ID this bad boy, about 2cm tall and growing in very wet red? Sphagnum moss.

 

[Geoff Dann]

Hi 21stCP.

Question 1: there is no such thing as an official common name, regardless of the attempts by the BMS to "enforce" them. Some species have none. Others have several. Also...all lichens are already half-fungus.

Question 2: That'll be Omphalina notinphillipsii.

Not sure, but if I had to guess I'd say it is probably Omphalina (syn. Arrhenia) rickenii

 

[s'étonner]

Here's a few mushrooms that I came across yesterday. I'm assuming that the purple ones are Amethyst Deceivers and the others, some kind of Bolete, still in the early stages of growth. Any ideas?

Suspect number 1....

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And number 2...

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Apologies for the poor photos- I only had my phone! I also found some common puffballs which I'm having for lunch! Yum!

 

[Geoff Dann]

1. is an amethyst deceiver - a few of those around at the moment, but not as many as in a good year.
2. looks like clouded funnel (Clitocybe nebularis), which is always very common but doesn't usually turn up this early down south. That's the first picture I've seen posted of it this year.

 

[s'étonner]

1. is an amethyst deceiver - a few of those around at the moment, but not as many as in a good year.
2. looks like clouded funnel (Clitocybe nebularis), which is always very common but doesn't usually turn up this early down south. That's the first picture I've seen posted of it this year.

Cheers Geoff!

I seem to have been finding lots of amethyst deceivers up this way. Unfortunately, that's about all I've been finding- no boletes, no field mushrooms. Not yet anyway...

I watched you on TV by the way, good stuff! You seem like a nice chap for a Palace fan

 

[Geoff Dann]

Cheers Geoff!

I seem to have been finding lots of amethyst deceivers up this way. Unfortunately, that's about all I've been finding- no boletes, no field mushrooms. Not yet anyway...

I'm seeing agaricuses coming through just now for the first time since midsummer. First horse mushrooms yesterday.

I watched you on TV by the way, good stuff!

It was a start.

You seem like a nice chap for a Palace fan

Bit of a topsy turvy season for us already. Looks like we could go from the very bottom of the table to an automatic promotion spot in the space of 7 games. I guess that's what you have to expect if you support Crystal Palace.

 

[Harvestman]

From a walk on the old spoil heaps above Blaenavon today

Meadow wax cap (probably), although the site is close to the second best wax cap site (in terms of species numbers) in the UK

Jelly fungus? Certainly it had a soft jelly consistency


Cheers

 

[Geoff Dann]

The jelly stuff is a bit of a mystery. I have found similar stuff which was definitely the remains left after a fox had eaten the rest of a frog, but this is the wrong time of year for "pregnant" frogs and there are many other explanations...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/outdoors/articles/jelly/

 

[Geoff Dann]

There's more boletes about now, by the way. And plenty of other stuff. It's still patchy though. You have to go a long way, but then you find loads of stuff in the same place. This has happened to me 3 times in the last 3 days.

 

[mercurykev]

I picked this mixed bag yesterday evening all from the same strip of mixed woodland: Penny Buns, Hedgehogs, puffballs, Slippery Jacks, Larch Boletes and a solitary Bay Bolete.

 

[Harvestman]

The jelly stuff is a bit of a mystery. I have found similar stuff which was definitely the remains left after a fox had eaten the rest of a frog, but this is the wrong time of year for "pregnant" frogs and there are many other explanations...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/outdoors/articles/jelly/

Thanks Geoff. Interesting. I found this in a 2-foot wide spread - way too much to be a frog. There were lots of pools about, but none near them. This was right up on a grassy ridge top. Could have been regurgitated by a buzzard or other predator, but nothing unusual about the spot. I handled some, and it was like the party-food jelly, after being mashed a bit. Gelatinous, but soft, rather than hard and rubbery. I just assumed a jelly fungus of some sort.

 

[Geoff Dann]

Thanks Geoff. Interesting. I found this in a 2-foot wide spread - way too much to be a frog. There were lots of pools about, but none near them. This was right up on a grassy ridge top. Could have been regurgitated by a buzzard or other predator, but nothing unusual about the spot. I handled some, and it was like the party-food jelly, after being mashed a bit. Gelatinous, but soft, rather than hard and rubbery. I just assumed a jelly fungus of some sort.

One thing it is definitely not is a fungus. What substrate is it growing in? The grass? The only (terrestrial) living things that look remotely like this are slime moulds (which aren't fungi), but that isn't a slime mould.

 

[s'étonner]

I went out again today to a new spot, and it was brimming with different mushrooms! Wherever I looked, I saw something else! Also, I have never seen so many Amethyst Deceivers- the things were everywhere.

The walk started with a whole bunch of field and horse mushrooms, YUM YUM.

I also roped my mum into coming along, as she has recently been getting into photography (although she assures me these photos are bad because she didn't have the right lens!), so here are some HQ snaps of those which I was unsure about:

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6) Ok, I know this is an Amethyst Deceiver, but what the hell....

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[Harvestman]

Tell your mum to stop moaning. Those are wonderful photos. I especially like the bracket in the first pic, and the amethyst deceiver.

 

[s'étonner]

Tell your mum to stop moaning. Those are wonderful photos. I especially like the bracket in the first pic, and the amethyst deceiver.

Thank you, I will do!

That bracket one reminds me of an episode Ray did where he handles a fungus that resembles deers fur. I think that was something different though, not a bracket fungus.

 

[Harvestman]

I think the bracket might be Inonotus hispidus, but wait for an expert to come along and put me right.

Likewise, 3 might be an ordinary deceiver, and 4, 5 & 8 might be sulphur tuft.

Possibly

 

[Geoff Dann]

1/2: dunno
3: Cortinarius sp.
9: Boletus pruinatus

 

[gregor-scott]

Anybody know what this one is? It's popping up out of my lawn.

 

[Paulm]

A few Orange Oak Boletes and a Penny Bun on my usual patch yesterday, all sliced, dried and bagged now except for the Penny Bun which is destined for some scrambled egg tomorrow (it's not overly large !), looks like the seasons started

Cheers, Paul

 

[Geoff Dann]

Anybody know what this one is? It's popping up out of my lawn.

It's a cortinarius of some sort. No hope of making any more progress than that from a photo.