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Post by ianr on Sept 27, 2017 11:36:06 GMT
Lots to see and hear on today's walk around a local park and nature reserve. It's only a mile or so away from home but I seldom go now a days it gets kinda crowded for me, but you can always find something of interest. Lots of shrooms today but as always there in the dark and I only had my phone with me it does seem to handle low light quite well though. There were shaggy scalycaps at the foot of a large beech tree, stump puffballs the most I've seen on one stump, more collard earth stars and the other earth stars I'm not sure of, see the photo and a host of others. A question for ruadh if I may are the earth stars all the same? I ask because the last photo is what I usually find in this spot and are almost always past there best, it's nice to find fresher ones. ian white saddle by IAN ROBINSON, on Flickr IAN ROBINSON, on Flickr
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Post by NellyDee on Sept 28, 2017 10:27:40 GMT
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Post by rowanberry on Sept 29, 2017 20:10:53 GMT
I see what you mean about your primroses blooming out of season. We're getting an awful amount of rain here, too- but without so many interesting mushrooms!
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Post by ruadh on Sept 30, 2017 8:40:42 GMT
Image 1: looks like a Lactarius. Image 2: Cortinarius? Image 5: the pink one I would name as Mycena rosea; the grey one maybe an Inocybe Image 6: Tricholoma sulphureum - this has very strong 'nauseating' smell (like tar gas). Images 7 & 8 are Geastrum fimbriatum the Sessile Earthstar (in some books it might be called G. sessile). Image 9: there are several Earth Stars with a stalked spore sac which has a furrowed opening. From the image, and making a few assumtions, yours is probably G. pectinatum. There is a very similar species, G. striatum, which differs in having a 'basal collar' to the spore sac (a side-on view of the fungus would be needed to see if this was present).
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Post by ianr on Oct 1, 2017 5:55:16 GMT
Once again thanks ruadh that's very interesting pic 9 was taken a couple of years ago under a pine tree there are a row of 8/10 trees but I've only seen it under the one tree there are quite a lot of brambles about so more may be out of sight. Pic 7/8 are under the exactly the same tree, so two types of earth stars within a couple of square meters, cool ian
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