Yet another mushroom id.
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What was the habitat? Where there any trees nearby? Where in the UK did you find them?
What was the habitat? Where there any trees nearby? Where in the UK did you find them?
Sorry.
found Glyn Lyon Scotland
approx 6" high with a dull mat look
beech trees and only a few feet from a river.
There's quite a few fungi in the Highlands which are very rare or non-existent elsewhere in the UK. Whatever you have there is something I've never seen before. I tried posting links to your pictures at the ABFG website, but for some reason nobody can see them without entering a username/password and it is illegal for me to repost the actual pictures.
My best GUESS is that this is Rozites caperata, but this could very easily be wrong.
My best GUESS is that this is Rozites caperata, but this could very easily be wrong.
I'm stumped 
..................I don't think it's the Rozites caperata,(gypsy mushroom).though..as they have a little skirt high on the stalk & from your photos, there doesn't appear to be one & they usually have paler whitish stalks.
It can be difficult identifying fungi from photos & to add to that difficulty, they often change shape & colour through their cycle.
What ever your mushrooms are, I don't think they're common.
..................I don't think it's the Rozites caperata,(gypsy mushroom).though..as they have a little skirt high on the stalk & from your photos, there doesn't appear to be one & they usually have paler whitish stalks.It can be difficult identifying fungi from photos & to add to that difficulty, they often change shape & colour through their cycle.
What ever your mushrooms are, I don't think they're common.
OK...I sent the pictures to Leif Goodwin, who is a nature/fungus photographer. He suggested Phaeolepiota aurea, and I think he's probably right. Common name is "Golden Bootleg", and it is indeed rare. This is the sort of mushroom that field mycologists get very excited about. It does occur outside the Highlands, but I've never seen one.
You can send a dried specimen to Kew if you want to get it recorded, but I suspect Leif would prefer you left them where they are to do what they are supposed to do!
You can send a dried specimen to Kew if you want to get it recorded, but I suspect Leif would prefer you left them where they are to do what they are supposed to do!
That what I like to do
