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Fungi ID; Place all your Fungi ID's here
Topic Started: Jul 20 2008, 12:07 PM (36,698 Views)
Davebutterflyman
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I know that Calocera viscosa emerges on wood substrate but i'm not sure whether any of the other Clavulinopsis are similar or if they are predominantly soil/pasture substrate.
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celticsparrow-Jan
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Can anyone help with these please?

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Is this a Magpie Inkcap?

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:thankyou:
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Davebutterflyman
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:hello1: Jan

The first one looks like Shaggy Inkcap and the second i think is a macrolepiota sp.
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Dave I think the 2nd is Shaggy Ink-cap as well. It is too elongated for Macrolepiota sp..and at that young unexpanded stage Macrolepiota would not be that "shaggy".

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Davebutterflyman
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Ahhh...you're right Judy.

Missed out on that id pointer :lol:
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Tabatha
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Does anyone have any idea what these fungi are:

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I was wondering if any of them are suitable for the Autumn challenge
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That is Poison Pax (Roll-rim) Paxillus involutus Tabatha.

This one is DANGEROUSLY POISONOUS and should not be touched without thoroughly washing hands immediately afterwards.
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Nov 17 2011, 04:19 PM
Can anyone help with these please?

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Is this a Magpie Inkcap?

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:thankyou:
Coprinus comatus I think. Also known as Lawyers Wig.
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Nov 20 2011, 01:37 PM
That is Poison Pax (Roll-rim) Paxillus involutus Tabatha.

This one is DANGEROUSLY POISONOUS and should not be touched without thoroughly washing hands immediately afterwards.
Hmm, had to look this one up. My book says poisonous if eaten raw or inadequately cooked.

Also I see no dent in the top, to me it looks more like P.atrotomentosus.
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Tabatha
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:thanks: Judy and Larry. I didn't touch it. Quite honestly it doesn't look appetising in any way.
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Davebutterflyman
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You're right Tabatha....not one bit of it looks edible!
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Hi, Larry, The first of Tabatha's photos is a mature specimen. The others show as immature that have not expanded enough to develop the the slight depression in the centre of the cap which both species have.
P.atrotomentosus generally has the stem attached well off centre and is found mainly growing in woods on and around conifer stumps.
However although I am sure this is P. involutus, in a case like this, where incomplete information is provided, as in a good shot of the stem and gills/pores/underside (use a mirror if necessary) One should err on the side of utmost caution.
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Dave, I think you are better at Waxcaps than me :grin: And I am getting a bit bogged down with some of these

1 Hygrocybe splendissima?
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3 Not sure if this is the same as the last one
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cont....

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Davebutterflyman
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:hello1: Judy

They can be a lot trickier than first appears but i do know some of them off the top of my head but i will need further info on others...

1. Agreed
2. Look like Hygrocybe chlorophana - Gills tend to be white to pallid lemon when young and the stem remains concolorous with cap.
3. Not too sure on this one...the white gills and reddish into yellow stem doesn't appear to fit with any i know.
4,5 and 11 are Hygrocybe virginea.
8. Stem appears too pallid to be young H.virginea but the gills look decurrent and broad so i'm not too sure.
12. The only one that comes to mind is Hygrophorus cossus. Did it have a very strong and rather unpleasant 'Goat' like smell?

Not too sure on the others.
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:hug: thanks Dave, that helps a lot. I was getting totally bogged down. Got fungi ID overload and couldn't see for looking. I will see if I can get back to that last one tomorrow. And now got some sorted I can concentrate on the rest.


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Number 12 I had thought H. cossus but it is growing some 20m out into the field. There is Beech in the hedge so I suppose it is possible the roots run that far as it is very shallow soil there.
The Hygrocybe virginea I wasn't sure of as there are conflicting names and I couldn't work it out. H. virginea, H. virginea var. virginea or Camarophyllus niveus. There is a lot of multiple naming and synonyms in the fungi world unfortunately.
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:hello1: Judy

I have seen H.cossus within approx the same parameters as you describe so i guess it is more than possible....i suppose the smell should give it away.

There is quite a lot of literature that suggest various names for H.virginea,each author being different so what i have tended to do,scientifically correct or not,is to lump them together as H.virginea agg as i can't begin to define them individually.
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Sorry Dave no 8 I should have put a size to it ... cap 8 to 10 mm. stem 4 - 5cm. Gills adnexed.
So far its got me stumped apart from the fact it is not a waxcap .

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We saw exactly the same fungi Judy at Kedleston hall last week and i cannot find it anywhere. It wasn't numerous by any means and a solitary trooping group of around a dozen individuals was all that was visible across the whole pasture.

I do know a fungi expert on another forum so i will see what Nick can come up with.
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