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Post by NellyDee on Sept 26, 2019 7:41:42 GMT
Can you point me in the right direction for this fungi please - Sorry could not get photo of gills. In peaty moss under beech DSCF6048 by Helen Skelton, on Flickr
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Post by ianr on Sept 27, 2019 6:33:24 GMT
I'd look towards sulphur tuft or honey fungus ian
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Post by ianr on Oct 5, 2019 9:00:14 GMT
A variety through the woods this morning puff balls earth balls some boletes and brittle gills
mod a lone shaggy parasol ian
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Post by Cotham Marble on Oct 5, 2019 13:28:06 GMT
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Post by NellyDee on Oct 5, 2019 15:17:03 GMT
Thank you CB. Fungi coming up big time here. Surprised that some are making an appearance again, I had areas here that were almost carpeted with Chanterelles in July and now they are appearing again. My Fungi of the day are two Shaggy Inkcaps. They appear every year in the same place and always only two for some reason. Shaggy Inkcap1 by Helen Skelton, on Flickr Shaggy Inkcap4 by Helen Skelton, on Flickr
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Post by NellyDee on Oct 15, 2019 12:15:08 GMT
I don't know if it is because it has been an excessively wet season, but I have never had so much fungi appearing, apart from the fact that the chanterelles have gone mad again the lawn (maily moss) are covered with fungi(all surrounded with beech trees) also the ground around the rowan trees. there are various fungi appearing in the outdoor pot plants.
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Post by rowanberry on Oct 19, 2019 20:24:06 GMT
I saw these last Thursday, but it was starting to rain so only got this one decent photo.
Shame that so many were broken, but they were right outside the Munnings Art Museum in Dedham- I think they were probably being trampled by people rushing to their cars.
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Post by aeshna5 on Oct 20, 2019 3:55:22 GMT
I'm no fungus expert but they look like Field Mushrooms to me. I found a couple of nice Parasols yesterday in Richmond Park, though again a couple had been knocked down by either people or animals.
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Post by Cotham Marble on Oct 20, 2019 16:44:02 GMT
As always - caution re: id by photo - but Field Mushroom Agaricus campestri looks pretty likely. Gills of the young specimens should be salmon pink, only turning darker in older or bruised specimens. Smell is a useful guide, in A.campestris it's a pleasant mushroomy smell, while in Horse mushroom A.arvensis there is often a noticeable aniseed smell. It's generally said that field mushrooms caps always stay white while Horse mushroom caps turn yellowish as they get older, though I'm not sure that this distinction is always so easy to make. There is a related species Agaricus xanthoderma the Yellow Stainer, this has an unpleasant smell which together with it's staining yellow on being bruised should be enough to distinguish it from it's relatives, although there are other differences to look for. Another member of this family but much rarer and looking like a cross between a Horse mushroom and a Parasol, is The Prince, A.augustus a quite rare and stately fungus, usually found growing under confers rather than in grass, I once saw a whole tribe of these growing under a line of Leylandii on the edge of a school sports ground near the centre of Bristol, it's said to have the smell of bitter almonds.
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Post by rowanberry on Oct 20, 2019 18:27:18 GMT
Thanks for the id and info, Aeshan and Cotham Marble!
These did look much like the ones seen in shops, but as much as I love mushrooms, I'd never risk gathering them to eat from the wild. I know a few people who do, but they're far braver than me!
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Post by ianr on Oct 23, 2019 9:52:07 GMT
Walk around Spalford Warren there were plenty of mushroom to be seen a nice patch of plumbs and custard growing on an old pine log and all sorts of small brown and white ones in the undergrowth. I couldn't get to where I wanted to as they've locked part of the reserve down while the sheep are in there grazing 'dumb asses who don't control their dogs being the reason' so the patch of wood where the fly agarics put on a display of dozens in circles was out of reach Still plenty more about below some photos, the ones I've named I think I'm right not sure about the others, think the purple gilled one 'last photo' maybe an amethyst deceiver and the parasol lots about this ones about the size of a dinner plate ian parasol by ian robinson, on Flickr Untitled by ian robinson, on Flickr Untitled by ian robinson, on Flickr jeweled amanita by ian robinson, on Flickr fly agaric by ian robinson, on Flickr wood blewit by ian robinson, on Flickr Untitled by ian robinson, on Flickr
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Post by aeshna5 on Nov 17, 2019 16:53:13 GMT
Some Velvet Shank on a stump this morning.
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Post by ianr on Nov 18, 2019 10:56:06 GMT
First time around Swanholme lakes here in Lincoln for a while and almost no fungi to be be seen, usually there's stacks around here makes you wonder. So best for today would be some very red looking turkey tail on some willow. Just as I was about full circle on my walk 2 young-ish blokes walked passed me with 2 cloth pouches each either side of their waist band, lack of mushrooms solved possibly It's not the first time Iv'e seen people picking around here ian
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Post by rowanberry on Nov 18, 2019 21:17:27 GMT
Fly agaric is one definitely on my 'fungi wish list'. I know they are deadly, but such lovely-looking mushrooms... they don't seem to grow around our way.
I'm sure there must be plenty of mushrooms in our local woods now, but it's been so wet it's nearly impossible to get in... both entrances have been turned into churned-up bogs.
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Post by ianr on Nov 30, 2019 9:59:39 GMT
Walk around Spalford warren it's even flooded here in places and every thing is looking sorry for itself, quite a few mushrooms about but pretty soggy looking most seen I would say were the puffballs all blown out, a good number of jewelled amanita under the pines and these below don't know the little ones. ian jelly ear by ian robinson, on Flickr by ian robinson, on Flickr
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