The Ultimate "What is this Fungi?" thread.

**Crafty** · 24-12-2009, 02:15

I have seen many threads to identify different fungi, so instead of people having to start a new thread - I thought that starting a thread that everybody can ask for fungi ID in one singular thread would encourage more people to ask about different fungi when they may not wan't to start a new thread, and would work as a definitive resource for quick lookup of previous identifications on the forum.

So;
Please ask all mushroom ID questions here for more convenience.

**Ahjno** · 24-12-2009, 02:23

Originally Posted by Crafty

I have seen many threads to identify different fungi, so instead of people having to start a new thread - I thought that starting a thread that everybody can ask for fungi ID in one singular thread would encourage more people to ask about different fungi when they may not wan't to start a new thread and would work as a definitive resource for quick lookup of previous identifications on the forum.

So;
Please ask all mushroom ID questions here for more convenience.

Excellent idea, made it a sticky for the time being.

http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=46561

http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=46751

http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=47229

http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=48367

**demographic** · 24-12-2009, 02:45

Grand idea.

Don't mind if I start do you?
I tend to take loads of pictures and intend on working out what they are later, sometimes I forget to do the last bit.
Photos taken in sept 06

**demographic** · 24-12-2009, 02:48

And another I never got round to...
Also taken in sept 06.

**SOAR** · 24-12-2009, 04:04

http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/sho...ght=fungi+pics

**Laughoutlouder** · 24-12-2009, 11:11

Nice one Ahjno!
Demographic, not sure about the first one but the second looks like a Bay Bolete, Boletus badius.!? Think thats the one that stains greenish fairly easily on bruising. If it is its edible.

**coln18** · 24-12-2009, 20:29

Not totally sure about the first one, looking at the pictures, it may possibly be the little wheel fungus, but thats just a guess from memory..if i get time i will check it out in one of my many fungi books..

Colin

**demographic** · 25-12-2009, 03:42

Originally Posted by Laughoutlouder

Nice one Ahjno!
Demographic, not sure about the first one but the second looks like a Bay Bolete, Boletus badius.!? Think thats the one that stains greenish fairly easily on bruising. If it is its edible.

Well I would have said that it did stain greenish anyway. good stuff.

Originally Posted by coln18

Not totally sure about the first one, looking at the pictures, it may possibly be the little wheel fungus, but thats just a guess from memory..if i get time i will check it out in one of my many fungi books..

Colin

Ahh, good info.
I'll have a look through my own mushroom book as soon as I find the damn thing, I know its kicking about somewhere.

Anymore for anymore?

Sulphur Tuft? That's what I thought these were anyway. What say you lot?
I usually put my big mitt into the picture to give scale but didn't this time, they wouldn't have been much more than about an inch across the top though is memory serves me right, again taken in sept 06 as can be seen on the photo date.

**SOAR** · 25-12-2009, 05:11

Originally Posted by demographic

And another I never got round to...
Also taken in sept 06.

Looks like Porphyrellus porphyrosporus

**SOAR** · 25-12-2009, 05:16

Originally Posted by demographic

Well I would have said that it did stain greenish anyway. good stuff.

Ahh, good info.
I'll have a look through my own mushroom book as soon as I find the damn thing, I know its kicking about somewhere.

Anymore for anymore?

Sulphur Tuft? That's what I thought these were anyway. What say you lot?
I usually put my big mitt into the picture to give scale but didn't this time, they wouldn't have been much more than about an inch across the top though is memory serves me right, again taken in sept 06 as can be seen on the photo date.

Hypholoma fasciculare
Sulphur Tuft Sept is the right time to see the fruiting bodies emerge.

**Laughoutlouder** · 25-12-2009, 22:53

Originally Posted by SOAR

Looks like Porphyrellus porphyrosporus

Hey SOAR, yeah it does look like Porphyrellus porphyrosporus. Still think its a bay bolete though but just shows how difficult and sometimes dodgy mushroom id can be. RE bay bolete, I got the latin name wrong above, it appears to be Xerocomus badius.

Happy Christmas All!

**rik_uk3** · 26-12-2009, 22:04

If in doubt don't eat it.

**coln18** · 27-12-2009, 09:00

Hey Rik, i was once told by a mushroom expert (mycoligist - not sure if that is how its spelt) a good phrase to remember

SHE SAID - YOU CAN EAT ALL MUSHROOMS AND FUNGI, BUT SOME OF THEM ONLY ONCE!

I have often walked through the woods with about 3 mushroom guides in my bag and came across mushrooms that i would have bet my house on that they were the ones in the book, and you know what i still havent ever eaten any, better to be safe than sorry.

Even on my RM Journeyman course they taught us which mushies to eat and what to avoid, but still before we ate any we had to check in with the mushroom lady, and i swear that there where times where we handed her 20 mushrooms that looked the same as each other, she would take a quick look sort them into piles and tell us half of them eadible half deadly, after that, i learned to give them a miss unless 100000000% sure of identification, so good advice RIK..

Colin

**Laughoutlouder** · 29-12-2009, 14:39

Hello again all. I should have probably said it earlier but forgot to. Never trust anybodys identification, especially mine. I am as close to a novice as it gets and although I enjoy identifying fungi, or at least trying to, I would never trust myself and have never eaten any, apart from those found on a fungal foray in October and we had at least 2 mycologists there! Somebody said it here very well, can't remember who so no citation, sorry!

If I say a mushroom is poisonous then it is poisonous.
If I say a mushroom is edible, then it's also poisonous!

**demographic** · 29-12-2009, 17:21

Another, taken in September again...

**Laughoutlouder** · 29-12-2009, 18:01

First thought was chanterelle but it's not. They look like proper gills and they dont run down the stem.
Maybe a russula of lactarius?
What ye think?
Are they gills?
Any milky substance from the gills demographic?

**SOAR** · 29-12-2009, 18:40

Could be Clitocybe gibba or Clitocybe renversé

**Laughoutlouder** · 30-12-2009, 11:53

Hey SOAR,

They do look similar alright.

They both seem to have an inrolled cap rim which the photo above doesn't have. Also on the cap margin there are those little lines. "Cap margin striate" is how most books seem to call it which wouldn't fit with those two clitocybes?

Trying to narrow this one down so what ye think?

Is the cap funnel-shaped or bowl-shaped?

Cap margin grooved(striate)?

Are the gills adnate or decurrent? Or something else? Really can't decide! Gills look decurrent but dont seem to run down stem so may look decurrent due to cap shape. I'm leaning towards adnate. Here is a not terribly helpful link.
"http://www.mushroomthejournal.com/greatlakesdata/Terms/adnat500.html#adnat500"

Gills look white-ish?

Looking around and between the gills, does anyone else see what could be clumps of white spores?

Later!

**xylaria** · 30-12-2009, 19:09

swamp yellow russula
brick caps hypholoma sublateritium
xerocomus badiorufus [hymenopore layer dercurrent not adnate]
panaeolus campanulatus [I am not good on LBMs i am bit confused by the frill and the nipple]

**demographic** · 31-12-2009, 00:52

Originally Posted by Laughoutlouder

Any milky substance from the gills demographic?

I'm sorry but I just can't remember, one of those pictures I just forgot about till now.

I've got quite a few pictures of things I picked up whilst I didn't have a field book with me, took photos then forgot about

**Laughoutlouder** · 31-12-2009, 12:35

Thanks demographic, was just curious.
My camera has been out of action for ages now so have no mushroom photos to put up. Glad someone does!

Think xylaria pretty much nailed em all.

Think the swamp yellow russula may be the common yellow russula though.

Sorry to aks xylaria but are xerocomus badiorufus and xerocomus badius the same mushroom with different names?

Again what does [hymenopore layer dercurrent not adnate] mean in relation to xerocomus badiorufus? How can you tell from a flat photo?

What are LBMs?

Sorry to ask questions, actually im not sorry, but am interested and want to learn as much as possible before the next proper hunting season!

**xylaria** · 31-12-2009, 16:49

Thanks demographic, was just curious.
My camera has been out of action for ages now so have no mushroom photos to put up. Glad someone does!

Think xylaria pretty much nailed em all. I get stuff wrong all the time the more people looking in detail the better

Think the swamp yellow russula may be the common yellow russula though.
I can't russulas apart from photos, I know by tasting the flesh, smelling them, and the spore prints, but pretty much they all look very simerlar. The little ridges between the plates are only found in one or two yellow russ's I think, but I moved house three weeks ago and can't check in the right book [buczaki (sp?)]

Sorry to aks xylaria but are xerocomus badiorufus and xerocomus badius the same mushroom with different names?
My main fungi guide [well the one I can find

]has them as separate species but the author [courtecuisse]is heavy criticized for creating too many divisions. They could be the same in some books.

Again what does [hymenopore layer dercurrent not adnate] mean in relation to xerocomus badiorufus? How can you tell from a flat photo?the hymenpore is the spore producing layer, I couldn't think of plainer word for the pore layer, sorry. With gilled fungi I can say gill attachment and it makes sense. The pores around the stem are elongated suggesting slight decurrent attachment rather than the more common adnate attachment

What are LBMs? Little Brown Mushrooms= mottle gills, psylocybes, stropharias, I can't say I ever had much interest in them. The life cycle is very interesting, but they are like little brown birds [warblers finches etc] in that only the really nerdy can tell them apart

Sorry to ask questions, actually im not sorry, but am interested and want to learn as much as possible before the next proper hunting season![/QUOTE]

**Laughoutlouder** · 07-01-2010, 10:12

Thanks Xylaria,

Thats all quite helpful. The info you gave on the hymenopore layer is particularly useful and has provided me new insights into the pored fungi and attachments. I see exactly what you mean now! Very cool!

Thanks again!

**demographic** · 07-01-2010, 20:44

Fairly easy one here, its pretty much exactly what it looks like as long as you imagine being really small and walking around the gills, lost.
Sorry but I didn't take any more pics showing the top but I doubt that will be a problem.

**Laughoutlouder** · 08-01-2010, 23:42

First quess with google got it. I think.

maze gill fungus ( daedalea quercina )

**Laughoutlouder** · 08-01-2010, 23:45

Or, Lenzites betulina.

Thinner cream gills.

**Commoner** · 01-02-2010, 13:10

cool thread

I've been foraging and eating fungi for years. I'm disappointed that people still seem reluctant to try fungi i.e. consume them.

Go out with someone who eats them regularly locally to you and you will get a handful of safe local idents that you can be sure of on your own. Find someone who doesn't guard their "best spots" too closely and repay them by finding your own "best spots".

Confession Time - I always used to lie to the public on fungi walks! I had to refuse to tell people which ones they could eat because my employer was worried about risk assessment and idiot-proofing the countryside! (AND to stop people coming back to my (SSSI) sites and eating my fungi!!)

I suspect most ranger types do the same and it puts the public off trying a normal pastime in the UK which our cousins over the ditch on the mainland think is abnormal and a waste!

Sorry.

**Jericho** · 16-02-2010, 02:51

Anyone know what these are?
Got a whole pile of 'em in the back garden.

**Angelo** · 16-02-2010, 19:36

velvet shank maybe but wait for somone who knows there fungi to confirm..if it is velvet shank

Originally Posted by Jericho

Anyone know what these are?
Got a whole pile of 'em in the back garden.

**Jericho** · 20-02-2010, 11:55

Originally Posted by Angelo

velvet shank maybe but wait for somone who knows there fungi to confirm..if it is velvet shank

Thanks for that (they've taken on a decidely unhealthy look now, so, i wouldn't fancy trying them anyway, but...)
Ya live and learn, never heard of them before!

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