The Ultimate "What is this Fungi?" thread.

[xavierdoc]

I'd really appreciate help with identification of those below. Unless otherwise stated (1, 9, 10), all are coastal grassland/scrub. The hole in the blade is 13mm.

1. Deciduous woodland, dry cap, peelable surface:

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9. Deciduous woodland

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10. Deciduous woodland


We aren't going to eat any of these, so no liability issues!

 

[Geoff Dann]

Long day, brief response:

1: yellow stainer
2: waxcap (can't be naffed to look it up)
3: dunno
4: meadow waxcap
5: blewit, looks like a wood blewit
6:waxcap
7: meadow waxcap
8: blackening waxcap
9: oyster mushroom
10: candlesnuff fungus

 

[xavierdoc]

Thanks, Geoff.

 

[xavierdoc]

Thanks for for taking the time to help a novice, Geoff. I do look in the books but find features of different species overlapping with some specimens; gets confusing.

Long day, brief response:

1: yellow stainer Xav - didn't stain while I was there so I f it wasn't for the subtle, browny scales on the cap, I'd have mistaken this for a Wood mushroom (which apparently also stain?! What!)

2: waxcap (can't be naffed to look it up) - Xav: could it be Hygrophorus reai (Marie Cap)?
3: dunno
4: meadow waxcap
5: blewit, looks like a wood blewit Xav - phew, what I thunk
6:waxcap -Xav- thought it might be a goblet waxcap (decurrent gills, etc.)
7: meadow waxcap
8: blackening waxcap Xav - good, that's what I thought, though I also thought it might be Hygrocybe nigrescens as you can see in the extra pic, the gills are free, not sinuate (but I am not familiar with sinuate gills...!)
9: oyster mushroom
10: candlesnuff fungus

 

[bob_the_baker]

Fly agarics I think

 

[mountainm]

An amazing crop of shaggy incaps. Sorry for the dodgy night time phone pics. The biggest were about a foot high.

 

[TallTom]

Hello all, I have attempted to look these up but not had any luck. I'm assuming the first two are the same type in different stages of growth.

This one found on rotting bark chippings

This one at the base of a dead deciduous tree.

Thanks in advance

 

[Harvestman]

I would say that last one is Fairies Bonnet, aka Trooping Crumble Cap Coprinus (as was) disseminatus. The scientific name has probably changed due to a revision of the group.

 

[Geoff Dann]

1 is probably Gymnopus confluens
2 and 4 are either Coprinellus disseminatus (Fairy inkcap) or Psathyrella pygmaea, which are very similar and sometimes grow together.
I don't know what 3 is and it has got to that point in the autumn where I'm a bit mushroomed out and can't be naffed to try to identify stuff that isn't going to be edible! Last foraging customers today.

Also, if anyone is interested, I'm going to be on the Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Kent on Wednesday, with live outside broadcasts throughout the show. They are going to set me some sort of fungi foraging challenge, apparently, and I'm going to have to try to complete it with a reporter in tow. Might be on BBC South Today too. Fun way to end the season.

 

[Harvestman]

Hi Geoff, good luck with the radio event.

Is it possible to get the fungus below any further than Stropharia sp? This is the only shot I have of it. Taken in an old walled garden that has been overgrown with bramble and nettle, but which was recently cleared.

 

[bob_the_baker]

Hi Geoff, good luck with the radio event.

Is it possible to get the fungus below any further than Stropharia sp? This is the only shot I have of it. Taken in an old walled garden that has been overgrown with bramble and nettle, but which was recently cleared.

Reminded me of Clitocybe odura (aniseed toadstool)

 

[Geoff Dann]

Hi Geoff, good luck with the radio event.

Cheers. I am looking forward to it.

Is it possible to get the fungus below any further than Stropharia sp?

It's either S. aeruginosa or S. caerulea. Probably the former, but not possible to be sure from a photo.

 

[Harvestman]

Cheers. I am looking forward to it.



It's either S. aeruginosa or S. caerulea. Probably the former, but not possible to be sure from a photo.

Thank you. Good enough for me.

 

[TallTom]

1 is probably Gymnopus confluens
2 and 4 are either Coprinellus disseminatus (Fairy inkcap) or Psathyrella pygmaea, which are very similar and sometimes grow together.
I don't know what 3 is and it has got to that point in the autumn where I'm a bit mushroomed out and can't be naffed to try to identify stuff that isn't going to be edible! Last foraging customers today.

Also, if anyone is interested, I'm going to be on the Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Kent on Wednesday, with live outside broadcasts throughout the show. They are going to set me some sort of fungi foraging challenge, apparently, and I'm going to have to try to complete it with a reporter in tow. Might be on BBC South Today too. Fun way to end the season.

Thanks Geoff and good luck with the show.

 

[xavierdoc]

Good luck with show, Geoff.

 

[Geoff Dann]

Available on iPlayer. my bit starts at 2:16:10

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02c715t

"Making of..." video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2__pgprReTM

 

[Harvestman]

Here's a challenge for you then Geoff. Is this Bolbitius vitellinus, or something else? As you can see from the picture, this is a very small fungus, maximum 1cm across in the cap.

 

[Geoff Dann]

It's Bolbitus titubans (syn. vitellinus), yes. They are quite variable in size.

 

[Harvestman]

It's Bolbitus titubans (syn. vitellinus), yes. They are quite variable in size.

Woohoo! Thank you Geoff.

 

[adventurer2]

Just going back to that previous post. One is actually likely to be gymnopilus hybridus. The one in two different stages growth is actually psathyrella multipedata, not coprinus disseminatus.