The Ultimate "What is this Fungi?" thread.

[jon r]

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!

 

[Paddytray]

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]

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!

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.)

 

[Paulm]

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

 

[Geoff Dann]

Definitely Pleurotus species. Not sure which one.

 

[21st century pict]

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]

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!

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]

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]

The same but with a thinner stem ?

Snapped when I tried to tilt it back a bit to look.....

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[Chiseller]

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 .

Cheers gents

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[bob_the_baker]

The gilled ones at the top look like Panther (Amanita Pantherina) or possibly Blusher (Amanita Rubescens) poisonous and tasteless respectively

 

[Mouse040]

Found on old coal batch growing solitary but in large numbers no distinct smell

Any ideas ?

 

[fungi2bwith]

The gilled ones at the top look like Panther (Amanita Pantherina) or possibly Blusher (Amanita Rubescens) poisonous and tasteless respectively

Have you tasted a blusher, I think they are a very tasty mushroom. I guess taste is subjective!

 

[Geoff Dann]

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.

 

[Geoff Dann]

The same but with a thinner stem ?

Snapped when I tried to tilt it back a bit to look.....

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That's a Xerocomus species. Wouldn't want to guess which one.

 

[Geoff Dann]

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Found on old coal batch growing solitary but in large numbers no distinct smell

Any ideas ?

Entoloma species, maybe. Certainly not edible!

 

[Mouse040]

Entoloma species, maybe. Certainly not edible!

Bizzare little fungus best part of 40 of them in 10 sq mtrs yesterday and no sign of them this morning

Thanks for the I'd

 

[Harvestman]

First wax caps of the year for me. Found on an old coal spoil heap. I sort of assume common wax cap, but hesitate to be definitive about it.

 

[Geoff Dann]

I'm unaware of anything called "common waxcap." I'm also not going to even guess which species you've got there. Too hard for me...

ETA: Maybe H. reidii. Oooops!

 

[Harvestman]

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.