The Ultimate "What is this Fungi?" thread.

jon r

Native
Apr 7, 2006
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England, midlands
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Hey,

how about this one... I see these every year and am wondering if they are edible... I thought they were 'Penny Buns' (Boletus Edulis), but having checked my ID books i'm now not sure...

Perhaps it's Boletus Reticulatus?

I found them growing under Oak and Beech

I would really appreciate any help identifying this one! Cheers!

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Paddytray

Settler
Jul 11, 2012
887
0
46
basingstoke
Can anyone help me choose which mushrooms would be best suited to growing from dowls. In silver birch stump & logs

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Geoff Dann

Native
Sep 15, 2010
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Sussex
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Hey,

how about this one... I see these every year and am wondering if they are edible... I thought they were 'Penny Buns' (Boletus Edulis), but having checked my ID books i'm now not sure...

Perhaps it's Boletus Reticulatus?

I found them growing under Oak and Beech

I would really appreciate any help identifying this one! Cheers!

mushroom.jpg


mushroom2.jpg

Bitter Bolete (Tylopilus felleus). NOT edible (far too bitter), and not that common either. Please do not "pick and hope" (pick for the pot without knowing what you're picking, in the hope of getting a positive ID of something edible by posting it online). It gives foragers a bad name as environmental vandals. ETA: although I see from re-reading your post that you believed these to be penny buns.)
 
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Paulm

Full Member
May 27, 2008
1,089
184
Hants
Some early season sightings on my camping trip to the New Forest last week :)

Oyster mushrooms ? Growing on a fallen beech tree, lots along the trunk but most had dried out, these were about the only fresh ones.





Chicken of the Woods ? I've never seen so much of this around, without really looking I noticed four or more separate clusters in different areas, although I suppose I was cycling around a lot and covering a fair area ! Growing on oak in each case.







A bracket fungus of some sort, really majestic looking at the bottom of a large standing oak tree, really impressive to look at !





Hoping to fit another week's camping in down there some time next month, weather and other things permitting, and hope to see a few more varieties around then :)

Cheers, Paul
 
Mar 15, 2011
1,118
7
on the heather
What the fungi!
Found this one last year in the Culbin Forest " Hydnellum peckii " Bleeding tooth fungus, while walking the Moray Coastal Trail, easly the 2nd weirdest mushroom we have found so far.
 

fungi2bwith

Member
Feb 27, 2008
28
0
hampshire
Hey,

how about this one... I see these every year and am wondering if they are edible... I thought they were 'Penny Buns' (Boletus Edulis), but having checked my ID books i'm now not sure...

Perhaps it's Boletus Reticulatus?

I found them growing under Oak and Beech

I would really appreciate any help identifying this one! Cheers!

mushroom.jpg


mushroom2.jpg

They look similar to bitter boletes but I would expect to see pink tubes in the older specimens. To check, you can taste a small amount, chew and spit out. If very bitter then it will be the bitter bolete. If not then it could be a Summer Cep.

Garry
 

Geoff Dann

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They look similar to bitter boletes but I would expect to see pink tubes in the older specimens. To check, you can taste a small amount, chew and spit out. If very bitter then it will be the bitter bolete. If not then it could be a Summer Cep.

Garry

Agreed. This occurred to me last night after I'd made that post. I've never found Boletus reticulatus. Or at least I've never successfully identified it if I have found it. If you mistake a bitter bolete for a penny bun then you'll know about it pretty quickly when you try to eat it, but if you mistake B. reticulatus for a penny bun then you will not realise you've made a mistake.
 

Chiseller

Bushcrafter through and through
Oct 5, 2011
6,176
3
West Riding
The same but with a thinner stem ?
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Chiseller

Bushcrafter through and through
Oct 5, 2011
6,176
3
West Riding
Same woods ......different ones ...
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I couldn't get a gill shot as I didn't want to disturb it after the last accident.
4/5 both growing either side of the log in the beck .
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Cheers gents

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bob_the_baker

Full Member
May 22, 2012
489
43
Swansea
The gilled ones at the top look like Panther (Amanita Pantherina) or possibly Blusher (Amanita Rubescens) poisonous and tasteless respectively
 

Geoff Dann

Native
Sep 15, 2010
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Sussex
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It is certainly a blusher, and not a panther cap, and I agree with fg2bw: blushers are a good edible species provided you can safely identify them and cook them properly.

The mushroom below the blusher looks like a charcoal burner to me.
 

Harvestman

Bushcrafter through and through
May 11, 2007
8,656
26
55
Pontypool, Wales, Uk
Sorry Geoff, I meant Meadow waxcap Hygrocybe pratensis, but it isn't that (finally got around to consulting my book).

Pretty things, but hard to identify. Thanks for having a go. :)
 

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