The Ultimate "What is this Fungi?" thread.

[slowworm]

Lactarius, possibly deliciosus? Sorry there's no picture of the top, the one I took didn't focus.

 

[Geoff Dann]

Bottom pic looks like L. deliciosus, top one looks like some other lactarius.

 

[Gabe]

Evening all. Managed an early finish today so took the dogs out for a stretch and found these. I have lent my mushroom guide to a friend and I'm struggling to ID these using websites.

Not the best photos sorry.

Thanks for looking.


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[bob_the_baker]

No idea what this is. Was growing on grass under a willow. Looked a bit like the result of the dog eating grass from a distance

 

[Harvestman]

No idea what this is. Was growing on grass under a willow. Looked a bit like the result of the dog eating grass from a distance

Might be a slime mould.

 

[bob_the_baker]

Good call. Brefeldlia maxima looks like a candidate. It's just outside work so I will keep an eye on it, see what happens next

 

[Geoff Dann]

Evening all. Managed an early finish today so took the dogs out for a stretch and found these. I have lent my mushroom guide to a friend and I'm struggling to ID these using websites.

Not the best photos sorry.

Thanks for looking.


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They look like some sort of Psathyrella.

 

[Billy1]

Hi, was just hoping that someone could give me some more info on shaggy ink caps please? I'm am 99% certain I can identify them but would like to be 100%...

1) Is the magpie ink cap the only poisonous look-alike? (I'm also aware of the common ink cap which can't be consumed with alchohol).

2) I have heard that it can also resemble some other species when young. Does this include anything poisonous?

Thanks

 

[Geoff Dann]

Hi, was just hoping that someone could give me some more info on shaggy ink caps please? I'm am 99% certain I can identify them but would like to be 100%...

1) Is the magpie ink cap the only poisonous look-alike? (I'm also aware of the common ink cap which can't be consumed with alchohol).

2) I have heard that it can also resemble some other species when young. Does this include anything poisonous?

Thanks

I can't think of anything poisonous you can get shaggy inkcaps confused with.

 

[Harvestman]

Hi, was just hoping that someone could give me some more info on shaggy ink caps please? I'm am 99% certain I can identify them but would like to be 100%...

1) Is the magpie ink cap the only poisonous look-alike? (I'm also aware of the common ink cap which can't be consumed with alchohol).

2) I have heard that it can also resemble some other species when young. Does this include anything poisonous?

Thanks

As a habit, 99% isn't good enough. 100% or you don't eat it.

 

[slowworm]

Just for fun, but possibly leading to a sensible question...

 

[Geoff Dann]

Looks like Pleurotus ostreatus var columbinus gone a bit mouldy.

But probably not. Sounds like a trick posting though - like the photo wasn't taken in the UK, or these are cultivated. Not enough information, no shot of the underside, etc...

 

[slowworm]

Yes, they're cultivated. Home grown Shiitake.

And I wondered if they've ever grown wild in the UK as so many people grow them these days and they seem quite virulent?

 

[Geoff Dann]

And I wondered if they've ever grown wild in the UK as so many people grow them these days and they seem quite virulent?

Unlikely, since their preferred host tree isn't present in the UK. "Shiitake" = "mushroom that grows on the wood of a shii tree."

 

[Geoff Dann]

Somehow appropriate for Halloween. Never seen it before - rare relative of the Amanitas - edible. Weeping Slimecap (Limacella guttata).

 

[Harvestman]

Nice find Geoff. Here's a Halloween contribution of my own. No identification needed thanks. I already know it is a slug-eyed puffball.

 

[scotty38]

Could anyone let me know what this is please? I get quite a few growing in a field (not grassed) nearby.

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=A0C2E3AEB8FB74BD!8206

I've tried and tried to put the photo up but failed miserably.

Thanks

 

[Geoff Dann]

Could anyone let me know what this is please? I get quite a few growing in a field (not grassed) nearby.

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=A0C2E3AEB8FB74BD!8206

I've tried and tried to put the photo up but failed miserably.

Thanks

Volvariella gloiocephela

 

[demographic]

Lot of puffballs about at the moment.

 

[scotty38]

Volvariella gloiocephela

Thank you very much. In my searches I had come to the "conclusion" it was Amanita virosa. What are the main differences that you see or am I just so wide of the mark it's irrelevant?
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