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Fungi ID; Place all your Fungi ID's here
Topic Started: Jul 20 2008, 12:07 PM (36,668 Views)
Davebutterflyman
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:lol: Jan.

Yes, very well done Happyhare for keeping the fungi list in such great order with regular updates...many thanks indeed.

We may well do 200 species Jan and with the other 9 species pending above, this will take us to 190.
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feedyourhedgehog
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Davebutterflyman
Nov 9 2013, 05:10 PM
Hi Paula.

Post 977, photo 1 looks very similar to a Solitary Amanita Amanita echinocephala. I can't see anything similar and most photos in this early stage appear to be a good match.
Thanks Dave it does look quite like it doesn't it :yes:
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Davebutterflyman
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I have cross-checked it's distribution Paula and it is listed as a rare species in some literature and uncommon in others. The NBN gateway does list over 60 sites for this fungi. Whereabouts did you see this one Paula?
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Davebutterflyman
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Post 943, species 5 Paula might be a type of Myxomycetes.
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Davebutterflyman
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A few fungi id's from previous posts:

Grayling:

Post 826, photos 1 & 2 - Common Puffball

Post 826, photos 3 & 4 - Clitocybe geotropha

Happyhare:

Post 812, photos 1,2 & 3 - Lactarius pallidus

Post 774, photos 1 & 2 - Meripilus giganteus

Mick:

Post 767, photo 3 - Suillus bovinus

The Lactarius pallidus, Happyhare and the Suillus bovinus, Mick can both go straight on the fungi challenge.
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feedyourhedgehog
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Davebutterflyman
Nov 9 2013, 06:23 PM
I have cross-checked it's distribution Paula and it is listed as a rare species in some literature and uncommon in others. The NBN gateway does list over 60 sites for this fungi. Whereabouts did you see this one Paula?
Do you mean the Amanita echinocephala Dave :thinking: It was in Scotland, The Borders not far from Peebles in a mainly coniferous forest
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Davebutterflyman
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I did Paula, sorry, i should have been more specific. I have been doing more research and i cannot find anything to suggest it wouldn't be Amanita echinocephala. There are a couple of sites around the area you were in Paula, and from all the references i have studied, my thoughts are that it is indeed Amanita echinocephala...a great find and one for the fungi challenge :cool2:
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feedyourhedgehog
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That's great Dave thanks .......... :cool:
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Davebutterflyman
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Pleasure Paula.
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feedyourhedgehog
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I don't think I've put these on yet :thinking:

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MalcolmP
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Found this odd looking fungus at the base of one of my beech trees,
a type of dead man's fingers perhaps ?

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Davebutterflyman
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Hi Paula.

1. Inonotus type but it might be tricky to narrow down. I was thinking Inonotus radiatus, was it solitary or part of a tier?
4. Gills look decurrent and it may point to it being a Clitocybe.
5. This one appears to have evidence of a ring on the stipe so i'll check out the possibles.
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Davebutterflyman
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A very interesting one Malcolm.

It is a Ramaria (Club) type fungi. The key to this is it's mycorrhizal association with certain trees, Beech being the key here and therefore should point to Ramaria stricta.

This can go straight onto the fungi challenge Malcolm.
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MalcolmP
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Thanks for all the info Dave, very interesting.
We've been here a long time and this is the first I've seen and it is only round one tree, I hope that is not an ill omen for the tree :(

I've looked it up in Wikipedia where it says the spore print is yellow,
I suppose it must have spores being a fungus ! but it seems an odd shaped thing to do a print from ! However, we shall see, I have harvested a small clump which is now on a piece of paper in the spare bedroom :)

Ps. done on the challenge.
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Davebutterflyman
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Cheers Malcolm.

Spore print is indeed yellow (Hyaline and yellow in mass)
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feedyourhedgehog
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No. 1 was part of a tier Dave :cool:
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Davebutterflyman
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Thanks Paula....that would probably make that Inonotus radiatus then.
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Davebutterflyman
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Photo 2 in your last batch Paula look like a well developed Mycena type and in photo 3 i would say a variation on Piptoporus betulinus.
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feedyourhedgehog
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Thanks Dave :cool:

Is this a Clustered brittlestem please Psathyella candolleana at Fen Drayton on a grassy bank

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Davebutterflyman
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Looks a good match to me Paula :cool2: Nice fungi as well.

It can also go straight on the fungi challenge.
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