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Fungi ID; Place all your Fungi ID's here
Topic Started: Jul 20 2008, 12:07 PM (36,637 Views)
Davebutterflyman
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Hi Jane.

Yes, looks good for Amethyst Deceiver.
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Pam M
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Hi Folks, is this the start of Hoof Fungus? The base is very thick & solid. I know it hasn`t got the dark bits yet :wave2:

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Ta for looking.
Mmmmm, or is it Laquered Bracket??????
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Davebutterflyman
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Hi Pam.

That is a Ganoderma type and likely to be Ganoderma australe (Southern Bracket). It is much wider across the cap than Hoof fungus and it also displays a brilliant white tube layer. It can be confused with Ganoderma applanatum but this type has an off-white tube layer and is generally thinner at the edge. Hoof fungus mostly displays a dirty white off-greyish lower surface and not the brilliant white of Ganoderma australe.
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Pam M
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Many thanks Dave. I saw that the Lacquered one was rare after I had posted here. I`ll google & look at the ones you have said.
Meanwhile.........
I thought this one may be Mycena, but now don`t know, I`m confused (it doesn`t take a lot) :lol2:

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Davebutterflyman
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Hi Pam.

On first looks i would say Laccaria laccata (The Deceiver). It is probably one of the trickiest fungi's to id because the cap colour changes so many times and can make it look like a completely different fungus. The tan coloured broad and deep gills along with interspersed shorter gills is a useful pointer allied with the fibrous-looking stem.
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Pam M
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Many thanks Dave, I`m finding it really difficult. I`m not following a set pattern to Id fungi & I know I should! I look at pictures first :bag:
So many changes in their appearence during time as well, I will never say Moth & Gulls are hard again :chuckle:
:thanx:
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Davebutterflyman
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:lol:

I think fungi is the hardest group of all to id Pam, so many variables and so many of them cannot be positively identified at all without numerous stages of investigation and even then, experts can still fall short. It makes it a real challenge when you are out and about in the field looking at/for fungi but there are still many more types that can be identified with relative ease...thankfully.
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Pam M
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:Cool:
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Jane
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Davebutterflyman
Sep 16 2015, 08:05 PM
Hi Jane.

Yes, looks good for Amethyst Deceiver.
thanks Dave :cool:
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Davebutterflyman
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Ok Jane.
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Davebutterflyman
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Jane,

Post 1613, photo 1 (the white spiky-looking fungi) is an Amanita sp and likely to be Fly agaric but there are a couple of other possibilities but i can't say for sure.
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Jane
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I've just done some googling and see what you mean :cool: I wish I could remember where I took the photo so I could go back and have another look! :paul: :impatient:
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Davebutterflyman
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That's a shame, it will be fully grown by now i would have thought and possibly others in the same area would be out.
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AnnB
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I'm pretty sure this is Amethyst Deceiver but I just want to double check, and is the other one Turkey Tail please?
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Davebutterflyman
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Hi Ann.

Spot on with both.
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AnnB
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Great, thank you Dave.
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Tabatha
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There was a group of these by the flats.

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I was able to get this photo of the underside of one today. This afternoon I saw a little girl kick it and break them all up. I wasn't very impressed. Does anyone know what type it is?

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This one is on a cut down tree trunk is it a type of turkey tail?
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Davebutterflyman
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Pretty close with the second one Tabatha and it is a Stereum type.

The first one is an agaricus and looks very much like Agaricus campestris (Field Mushroom)
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Jane
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This afternoon I saw a little girl kick it and break them all up. I wasn't very impressed


That brings back memories. I once saw some beautiful specimens of Fly Agaric and just as I was about to go and take photos some kids rushed over and kicked them to bits!! :notfair:



Dave are any of these Milk caps? :think:

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Davebutterflyman
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Very annoying isn't it and so unnecessary.

Those all look like Milk caps to me Jane.
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