The Ultimate "What is this Fungi?" thread.

Harvestman

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Ah, the curse of predictability...

I'm currently working on the theory that if I post enough wax cap pictures up here Geoff will eventually be able to identify one of them....

:joke:
 

Geoff Dann

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Ah, the curse of predictability...

I'm currently working on the theory that if I post enough wax cap pictures up here Geoff will eventually be able to identify one of them....

:joke:

Hmmm. Maybe if you post a really easy one! The thing is I'm very busy at the moment - I spend most of my days looking for mushrooms, and quite a bit of my evenings trying to work out what I couldn't identify in the field. And this isn't the only board I post on. So at the moment, I'm tending just to provide identifications of stuff I know without having to spend ten minutes consulting books and thinking about it.
 

Geoff Dann

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Parrot wax cap?

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OK, that's an easy one. Yes.
 

Geoff Dann

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Wild field mushrooms?

These were waiting for me on a cricket field.... Growing in twos an threes.
I've no guide with me and if they cut the grass soon, they'll be gone. Cheers
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Nearby were these....growing in clusters

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Top ones look like field mushrooms, yes. Really hard to make out the bottom ones because of the way the light falls.
 

Goatboy

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Mouse040

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One of the blue Stropharia species
An agaricus, looks like moelleri
Clitocybe nebularis

And I have seen enough mushrooms, and walked far enough, to last me until next year.

Happy new year. ETA: ...until the mushrooms start to stop...

Oh no, still a month to go.

/flop/

Thankyou Geof I must be getting half decent I was spot on with the last two :)

How on earth can you of seen enough mushrooms it's the most terrible addiction ever I've got 140+ spore prints and still get excited every time I go out
 

Geoff Dann

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Well, it makes a change from last year when you were complaining that there were no fungi around.

Yes, a lot better than last year. There were some fungi around last year - the year before was much worse because at this point it had not rained for about five weeks. But last year there were too many slugs, and very few boletes. I was collecting photos, and most of what was around was not in the sort of state you'd want to take photos of. This year I've been adding new photos to my collection pretty much every time I go out, which adds up to quite a lot after a while. Found some Pseudocraterellus undulatus today, for example, which I've only ever seen once before (rare type of chanterelle). Another three or four weeks and it will all be over for another year...
 

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