The Ultimate "What is this Fungi?" thread.

[Geoff Dann]

Any idea about these?

I found this one in a pasture and think someone may have kicked it over!

Looks like meadow waxcap.

These were found on a hilly/rocky area near the pastures:

Can't be sure from that photo, but I'd guess woolly milkcap.

 

[Geoff Dann]

Bushwhacker

1. one of the brown russulas
2. brown birch bolete
3. Sulphur tuft. Velvet shanks are much more orange, slimy and have tough, thin stalks.
4. can't say from that photo but I'd guess it is either clouded funnel or the miller.
5. Armillaria (honey fungus). Probably A. cepistipes. (definately not A. mellea)

 

[Bushwhacker]

Bushwhacker

1. one of the brown russulas
2. brown birch bolete
3. Sulphur tuft. Velvet shanks are much more orange, slimy and have tough, thin stalks.
4. can't say from that photo but I'd guess it is either clouded funnel or the miller.
5. Armillaria (honey fungus). Probably A. cepistipes. (definately not A. mellea)

Cheers Geoff.
I've always told myself I'd never get into fungi but it's starting to reel me in!

 

[s'étonner]

Thanks Geoff!

 

[Geoff Dann]

Cheers Geoff.
I've always told myself I'd never get into fungi but it's starting to reel me in!

Why did you tell yourself never to get into fungi? It's dangerous if you get overconfident, but you don't have to eat anything you aren't sure of. Personally I've always found fungi fascinating, ever since I first saw dry rot fruiting when I was a child. They are just so weird.

 

[Bare Bones]

Hi
The 2 pics below were both taken on the weekend and both show fungi growing in a bark covered tub used to grow rhubarb.
There are two double growths in the pot. When I took the pics I thought they were both of the same species but having looked at the pics there seems to be a difference in the shape/edge of cap between the two.
Are they one and the same?
Any ideas on ID?

Cheers
BB

 

[Geoff Dann]

Hi Bare Bones

Hi

Are they one and the same?

I think so.

Any ideas on ID?

I'm not sure, but it looks like a Galerina to me and it may well be rather poisonous.

 

[Harvestman]

Hi Geoff, can you confirm the identity or otherwise of the Helvella lacunosa that I tentatively identified at the top of this page? Would like to know if I was right, or even close. Interesting looking fungus.

 

[Geoff Dann]

Hi Geoff, can you confirm the identity or otherwise of the Helvella lacunosa that I tentatively identified at the top of this page? Would like to know if I was right, or even close. Interesting looking fungus.

It was a Helvella, but I can't confirm the species ID. Sometimes white helvellas go brown. You are probably right, but I can't confirm it.

 

[s'étonner]

Here's some things I spotted on wednesday. Recognise a few of them, but any ID's would be very welcome, particularly the slimy, alien-looking chappy on the right in number 5!

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[Geoff Dann]

1) Slender parasol (Macrolepiota mastoidea). Might also be M. konradii - not sure from that photo.
2) Clouded Funnel (again)
3&4) Butter Cap (Collybia butyracea)
5) Some sort of bolete. The other thing is just another bolete covered in another sort fungus. The fungus that is attacking it does have a name, but I can't remember it.
6&7) Wood Blewitt

 

[Harvestman]

It was a Helvella, but I can't confirm the species ID. Sometimes white helvellas go brown. You are probably right, but I can't confirm it.

Thanks Geoff. Appreciated as always.

 

[Chiseller]

Only meeeee.....tried browsing first eighty posts and given up .hard work with a SE xperia mini.

This was found yesterday in some pine woods....

And this today in beech/oak wood....

And I grabbed a load of horse hoof......is amateur worth effort of making ?
cheers

 

[Geoff Dann]

Top one is a young Fly Agaric. Others are Slippery Jacks...

 

[Harvestman]

There, I learn something every time I view this thread. I didn't know slippery jacks bruised blue, despite picking them often enough. ::

 

[Geoff Dann]

There, I learn something every time I view this thread. I didn't know slippery jacks bruised blue, despite picking them often enough. ::

You're right. They don't normally bruise blue. I guess they could be bay boletes, but they don't half look slimy for bay boletes - plus I'm seeing slippery jacks all over the place at the moment and I've seen about one bay bolete all year...

I need my nose to be sure. Bay boletes have a distinctive smell.

 

[Chiseller]

Thanks as usual Geoff , but.......the flesh was yellow and the surface didn't look like pictures I've seen of slippery jacks. Plus the stem brown ? The cap was nearer to 6" than 3.... not in coniferous wood either. Does that help ? Cheers

 

[Geoff Dann]

Thanks as usual Geoff , but.......the flesh was yellow and the surface didn't look like pictures I've seen of slippery jacks. Plus the stem brown ? The cap was nearer to 6" than 3.... not in coniferous wood either. Does that help ? Cheers

Yeah it's not a slippery jack. Stem is all wrong. Bad call on my part - not paying attention.

I think it's a very wet and rather bulky-capped Bay Bolete

 

[Harvestman]

There, I learn something every time I view this thread. I didn't know slippery jacks bruised blue, despite picking them often enough. ::

Geoff, the above was about as near as I dared to saying "Are you sure?". Bay bolete was my guess (after looking in Phillips, or I wouldn't have had a clue), but I hate it when people challenge me in my area of expertise (spiders) so I was reluctant to do it to you.

Thing is, if someone shows me a picture of a spider, I can usually say "Can't identify it from a picture". Kudos to you for putting yourself up for criticism so often.

 

[Chiseller]

Thanks Geoff , what put me off assuming it was a.bay was the narrow stem compared to the picture in Paul sterry,s book. I've got Rogers mushroom app on my phone but its hard work getting used to it. Thanks again and it's the first time seeing a fly agaric at that stage. I'll be monitoring it as it grows to help with my knowledge. Thank you Sir.