The Ultimate "What is this Fungi?" thread.

[Roe Ring]

My initial thoughts are that it looks like a Lepista/Rhodocybe. Maybe R. popinalis, which grows on sand dunes?? I've never seen it. And it might be something else entirely...

Don't know.

Thanks Geoff, I can't find anything similar. The R. popinalis is the closest. I'll see if it has a mealy smell next time I see it.


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[Geoff Dann]

Mark,

Right genus, wrong species. Those are mastoidea.

Geoff

 

[Roe Ring]

Thanks again Geoff, your expertise is much appreciated.

I seem to spend half my life with my head stuck in Rodger Phillip's book at the moment. I'm hooked and it's frustratingly addictive!


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[Geoff Dann]

I seem to spend half my life with my head stuck in Rodger Phillip's book at the moment. I'm hooked and it's frustratingly addictive!

 

[Roe Ring]

Well thumbed!


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[Geoff Dann]

Found today:

Mmmm. Tasty!

 

[Chiseller]

eyup folks.... Sorry for a possible one that has already been identified ? I don't own a pc, just this old phone and the signal is crap at moment.

I would have waited but I'm keen to eat summat fo nowt toneet.

I can't load some of the pictures already submitted, but I uploadEd an saved mine earlier. Weve looked in Paul sterry's book an nearest is shaggy parasol.

I know where there is a few to be had if they are the edible ones? and belive they need frying well ? cheers folks.

 

[Geoff Dann]

Yes, that's a shaggy parasol. I'm not sure that cooking it well will make much difference. This species is known to cause gastric upsets in some people, well-cooked or not.

I'm just glad somebody has posted a picture of a mushroom. I hang around on several website where people post mushroom pics for ID, and in the last two weeks everything has gone VERY quiet.

 

[mountainm]

Yes, that's a shaggy parasol. I'm not sure that cooking it well will make much difference. This species is known to cause gastric upsets in some people, well-cooked or not.

I'm just glad somebody has posted a picture of a mushroom. I hang around on several website where people post mushroom pics for ID, and in the last two weeks everything has gone VERY quiet.

I'm out on an organised fungi forage this weekend so I'll hopefully have loads to test you with. Usually, where we're going there's loads of orange peel fungus.

 

[Chiseller]

cheers , geoff that's much appreciated. we will have half each toneet and see if either of us get cramps
thankyou

 

[mountainm]

Here's the majority we found on our fungi forage (great day) - I think the prize was the slightly past it Oyster mushrooms. (plus a couple of random photos!)

 

[Geoff Dann]

Here's the majority we found on our fungi forage (great day) - I think the prize was the slightly past it Oyster mushrooms. (plus a couple of random photos!)

That's more than is growing down south at the moment, but it's hardly a feast...

 

[mountainm]

That's more than is growing down south at the moment, but it's hardly a feast...

there were a lot of mouldy ones - tons of birch polypore (it's a mainly birch wood) - last year there was lots of orange peel but none this year - perhaps it's been too warm?

 

[Geoff Dann]

Too dry down here...and too warm.

 

[Roe Ring]

Here is one I found today. The pure white colour stood out well in depths of the wood.

Found growing on birch stumps in a birch and spruce wood in north east Scotland. The bigger ones were 120mm or so in size.

I thought they may be some sort of oyster mushroom, but the flesh is very thin with concentric rings in the margin. Any suggestions?

Thanks

Mark




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[mountainm]

I would've said Oyster too.....

 

[Harvestman]

But for the habitat, I might have said it is Miller, but as it is, I dunno

 

[mountainm]

But for the habitat, I might have said it is Miller, but as it is, I dunno

Miller isn't a bracket is it?

 

[Geoff Dann]

They look a bit like the pale oyster (Pleurotus pulmonarius) but I suspect these are actually "angels wings" (Pleurocybella porrigens.) These are rare in most of the UK, but more common in the Highlands. Once thought to be edible, now suspected to be poisonous, possibly deadly.

 

[deepforest2501]

Spotted a few fungi when out for a walk. Anyone ID them?