The Ultimate "What is this Fungi?" thread.
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Thanks Geoff. By habitat and lack of annulus as per Girdled knight (Tricholoma cingulatum) I'm leaning towards the former.
I guess the best thing to do would be take a magnifying glass and look for yellowing spots. Appreciated, al.
I guess the best thing to do would be take a magnifying glass and look for yellowing spots. Appreciated, al.
Maybe of interest to regulars in this thread:
http://mouthfoodmagazine.com/2012/11/09/foraging-for-wild-mushrooms-in-surrey/
http://mouthfoodmagazine.com/2012/11/09/foraging-for-wild-mushrooms-in-surrey/
I took the dog out earlier hoping to find my lunch and found wood blewits, amathyst deceivers and agaricus silvaticus, so some still about. I am normally collecting loads of winter chanterelles at this time of year, but there hasn't been a single one in my regular places this year!
I saw a load of these yesterday, but too old to eat.
And I found some of that last week at Rownhams service station en-route to the New Forest. Best thing I found all that day!
They're incredibly patchy, just like so many other species this year. I found loads of them, but all within one patch a few metres across and no more even though exactly the same habitat was all around us for miles. Well, almost. The only thing I'm finding in widespread abundance at the moment is clouded b****y funnel.
Missed this one...
Second one is definitely a wood blewit. If the first one is much more purple then it may well be a Cortinarius, but it also does look like a wood blewit. Can't really tell from that photo.
Growing in my driveway between a birch tree and a leylandii hedge
Amethyst deceiver?
Not sure of this one? Looks very similar but the colour was completely different.
Second one is definitely a wood blewit. If the first one is much more purple then it may well be a Cortinarius, but it also does look like a wood blewit. Can't really tell from that photo.
Geoff those waxcaps in the article you posted are beautiful, such a good picture showing off their colours. 
Geoff those waxcaps in the article you posted are beautiful, such a good picture showing off their colours.
I was lucky to find them. I don't normally pick waxcaps for the pot, but there were doomed anyway, because they were growing right next to a village football pitch.
Found billions and squillions of them today. It was a case of having to move forward one step at a time, for fear of trampling them before they can be picked. Winter Chanterelles all over the place.
Sound amazing, I only managed to pick about 500g but I'm having some for tea tonight with pasta.
[h=5]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQlD3lfwzws&feature=plcp
Geoff's second attempt at filming mushrooms is no better than the first. It is one enormous ring of trooping funnel though. The film ends where it starts, and the other ring which branches off to three-quarters of the way around is a different species (clouded funnel).[/h]
Geoff's second attempt at filming mushrooms is no better than the first. It is one enormous ring of trooping funnel though. The film ends where it starts, and the other ring which branches off to three-quarters of the way around is a different species (clouded funnel).[/h]
Top one is too hard...
Bottom one looks like velvet shanks, but can't say without seeing the stem/gills.
Bottom one looks like velvet shanks, but can't say without seeing the stem/gills.
Thanks for that, I am just as clueless, I'll tr to manage better photographs next time.
Thanks for that, I am just as clueless, I'll tr to manage better photographs next time.
Photo wasn't that bad. It's just there's quite a few things that look like that, and I need more than just a picture to figure out which it might be. It looks a bit like Hygrophorus eburneus, but that is usually more slimy. It could also be a Tricholoma, and for those smell is important.
There are lots around in the (mostly) oak wood that I wander through now and then, I'll have a closer look, and a sniff.
Finally found first winter chanterelles of the year today, along with some hedgehogs and wood blewits.
Long time since I saw any hedgehogs. At least a month. They do last for a long time though, and the slugs don't seem to like them all that much, so they may have been there for quite a while. Also found some WC today, but not many. And 6 (six!) species of waxcap all growing within about 30 metres of each other - scarlet, crimson, butter, meadow, snowy and parrot! Oh, and some liberty caps mixed in just in case the psychedelic colours of the waxcaps weren't enough...
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