The Ultimate "What is this Fungi?" thread.
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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....
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....
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....
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.
Found in a birch and hazel woodland earthy smell
Rhodocollybia maculata. Spotted toughshank.
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
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.
Woo hoo! Yay! Brilliant!
Geoff, thank you. This must be your busiest time of year, so thanks for taking the time to come on here at all.
One of the Earth Stars, Geastrum, not sure which one, don't think they're edible. You're lucky, never seen one out of a book. (I'm not an expert by the way - so please wait for a responsible adult to properly identify it)
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Sorry Geof my books are failing me
If it helps the first one has brown/ ochre spore print and the other two white
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Sorry Geof my books are failing me
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
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It's my job. Imagine "the most terrible addiction" becomes your job. You're already an addict, then somebody starts paying you to feed your addiction...
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It's my job. Imagine "the most terrible addiction" becomes your job. You're already an addict, then somebody starts paying you to feed your addiction...
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...
Not looking for an identification, but thought I would share a jelly fungus I saw on Saturday.
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