The Ultimate "What is this Fungi?" thread.

[mountainm]

Cheers matey! Otzi carried some of those apparently! So edible but bitter! Easily recognisable once you know what it is eh! Won't forget that in a hurry!

Never heard it as being edible. But it will make an ember extender when dry. And you can peel it to make plasters, it apparently has antibacterial properties.

 

[leedsbrew]

Nice one! Cheers

 

[Ecoman]

Birch polypore definitely and second looks like some sort of milk cap?

 

[Geoff Dann]

Don't go eating them though without positive ID as they can be confused with a few smaller species that can cause gastric upsets. You need to take into consideration where they are growing, what they are growing on, size smell texture etc. The nice edible ones grow between 10 and 25cm across when fully open.

If none were wider than about 15cm and when cut turns quickly from white to pink then brown, and a hollow stem then its most likely to be a shaggy parasol. These can be eaten but need to be cooked well and are not as good as the Parasol.

Small things that look like parasols can do worse than cause gastric upsets. There are two small lepiotas that will kill you. Great care must be taken with anything that looks like a "small parasol."

 

[Geoff Dann]

Birch polypore definitely and second looks like some sort of milk cap?

Yes. Not sure which one but definitely milkcap.

 

[thorpey0]

Could someone please help identify these? Thanks

Is the first one Amanita rubescens, The Blusher?

 

[thorpey0]

And these as well please, new to this so rather than guessing and getting it wrong.....

But, is the first one Chanterelle?

second, Suillus bovinus?

Thanks again,

 

[Emdiesse]

Sulphur Tufts?

This looks different... but I thought it was sulphur tuft at the time I found it

Is this a Red-cracked Bolete?

I thought maybe thius was a brown roll rim - but then I saw it has no gills?

A Young Beefsteak Fungus?

 

[Chiseller]

A few yesterday.....
DD cupuis ?

Camoflaguris wydegillitas ?

Woodhog funginot ?

Nonwittusnamicus ?

Dozens of these....
Missedopertuntia ?

Alzheimerapratis ? (forgot where I put my book )

Smelt nice...

Accidentally beheaded it

cheers as usual

eggs shouldn't dance with stones.....

 

[thorpey0]

Well it made me laugh ..

 

[Geoff Dann]

Could someone please help identify these? Thanks

Is the first one Amanita rubescens, The Blusher?

Looks like it, yes.

 

[Ecoman]

Small things that look like parasols can do worse than cause gastric upsets. There are two small lepiotas that will kill you. Great care must be taken with anything that looks like a "small parasol."

Absolutely agree. I wouldn't expect anyone silly enough to actually pick and eat something from a prognosis based on a couple of pictures on a forum. I have a limited knowledge of foraging for mushrooms compared to a mycologist. There are times I look at mushrooms I deem edible but if something is not quite right, they are growing in the wrong place or I can't 100% make a judgement then I will walk away to forage another day. When it comes to mushrooms you have to be 100% sure or not at all. There can be no grey area IMO.

From the photos posted by mountainm I would say that they were shaggy parasols but unless I was there to see their actual scale, smell, texture and colour change when cut etc. I would not recommend eating them (as I had mentioned earlier in the post). I have seen some of the Lepiotas you have mentioned and although one of them is similar the cap pattern isn't as pronounced it is also far smaller so I dismissed them.

 

[thorpey0]

Looks like it, yes.

Any help with the others massively appreciated.

Thanks

 

[leedsbrew]

A couple from up Otley Chevin this morning! Both found in a shaded glade of birch and small oak.

Cheers

lactarius lacunarum?

 

[Geoff Dann]

Any help with the others massively appreciated.

Thanks

First one isn't a chanterelle. Brown rollrim - deadly (eventually).
Second one isn't a bolete at all - has gills. False chanterelle.
Third one is a mycena.
Fourth one is another brown rollrim.

 

[Paulm]

Been a disappointing season to date round my neck of the woods, and indeed in the New Forest a few weeks ago when I was camping there early August and again earlier this month, but after the recent rain, misty mornings and warmth I had a feeling it might be worth another look today




















A mixture of ceps, orange birch boletes and oak boletes.


That should see me through another year of risottos, pasta sauces and casseroles


I only take what I am going to eat and always make sure to leave all the smaller immature ones and the overly mature ones also, of which there were a lot, to ensure there will be some another day. Seems to work as I've been going to the same area for the last fifteen years or so and it's still very productive in the right conditions


Cheers, Paul

 

[Ecoman]

Good haul Paulm

 

[Paulm]

This will do for a few meals

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24292021

Cheers, Paul

 

[Gaudette]

I have no knowledge of fungi. I've looked through the internet etc this thread but can't find this one. It looks like something has taken a bite from it but I couldn't see any bite marks. It was on the edge of a copse of beech trees.

Any ideas?


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[mountainm]

A quick family walk through the local wood and I snapped some autumnal colours.

Some shrooms. Not sure what these are.
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