Cheers Geoff, time for more homework to read more into inkcap/brittle stem differences, to the novice they look similar, I can imagine the fun you must have had when you first started out pre-internet forums boom as such.
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Just have to take it slowly, which didn't matter so much at the time, because there was no peer pressure to know anything more than I actually knew!
Cheers Geoff it was the greenness of it that got me stumped. If that makes any sense.
Got a couple more from the other day and one from this morning.
These are in the same field as the Parasols and Stubble Rosegill's
From the pathside through the woods
and last one that had been disturbed.
Rob.
Thanks Geoff. I take it that they need to be cooked to be safe to eat.
Where I have found these and the Parasol's and Stubble's is where I work and have permission to forage and shoot.
The one's in the woods I have no permission so they stay put and are for my education only.
Appreciate your time and effort in replying to everyone's posts on here.
Rob.
Where I have found these and the Parasol's and Stubble's is where I work and have permission to forage and shoot.
The one's in the woods I have no permission so they stay put and are for my education only.
Appreciate your time and effort in replying to everyone's posts on here.
Rob.
Reading up on the clustered brittlestems the gills according to the Roger Philllips book state they should be brown but these are more white? would they turn brown later and white when new as the fairy inkcap is described as having white gills even though the picture in his book show them as dark?
Getting a bit confused
To be honest I am not sure what species they are, just that they are not fairy inkcaps. Maybe some sort of mycena.
Stuck again but wondering if the first images are possibly a Blue Roundhead? the greenish base at the stem and the blue/green tinge cap seems to elude me.
Found this one some time ago but the deep colour of the cap lost me, perhaps I'm being too literal in my searching
Finally this was growing on some hazel, closest I could find was Hypochicium vellerum but that is not found in Britain?
Found this one some time ago but the deep colour of the cap lost me, perhaps I'm being too literal in my searching
Finally this was growing on some hazel, closest I could find was Hypochicium vellerum but that is not found in Britain?
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The first one is indeed one of the three blue Stropharia species, the second one is one of the purplish Russulas and I can't help you with the other one.
The second looks like Turkey Tail
The Birch Polypore makes a good stop for your blades, there's another discussion about that in this section of the site.
The Birch Polypore makes a good stop for your blades, there's another discussion about that in this section of the site.
The closest to this I can find is Candle Snuff/Stagg's Horn?
Not looked into the id of the next one just like the way it grows out of the twig so I thought I would post it
Not looked into the id of the next one just like the way it grows out of the twig so I thought I would post it
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Thanks awarner. Is the following horseshoe fungus?
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Is the following cramp ball fungus?
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If I'm correct with these I'll be so chuffed. This wonderful site will have helped me ID horseshoe, cramp ball, and birch polypore, and the first steps of my bushcraft journey amongst the British flora will have begun.
Is the following cramp ball fungus?
If I'm correct with these I'll be so chuffed. This wonderful site will have helped me ID horseshoe, cramp ball, and birch polypore, and the first steps of my bushcraft journey amongst the British flora will have begun.
Looks like it may be a hoof fungus, from the samples I have it's normally a lighter colour especially the pores but that could be dependant on habitat and what it was growing on.
Ahh sorry thought they were all the same just different angles which confused me.
The cramp balls general will be on ash if you split it open it should have concentric rings, great for firelighting. The hoof fungus I expect to be more on beech/hornbeam but the bark on the first image appears to be from birch.
On further reading it appears it is more common on birch in Scotland and the north of England and then changing to beech in the south. I wonder whether there are two sub-species of hoof fungus?
The cramp balls general will be on ash if you split it open it should have concentric rings, great for firelighting. The hoof fungus I expect to be more on beech/hornbeam but the bark on the first image appears to be from birch.
On further reading it appears it is more common on birch in Scotland and the north of England and then changing to beech in the south. I wonder whether there are two sub-species of hoof fungus?
Completely stumped on this little chap, Found this on a cut section of fallen oak that is resting in a reed bed so this must have some brackish water tolerance?
The overall size is approximately 2.5-3cm across and with the bell shaped body I cannot find anything similar in my books.
The overall size is approximately 2.5-3cm across and with the bell shaped body I cannot find anything similar in my books.
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