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AGILIS
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Glad I am not alone Gemma as its not so easy even with a up to date book that I often take in me truck,The obvious ones are okay but some well???? some just look to alike and as you say dont gamble on what your not sure of.Keith
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Suzy
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I was walking across a field with an old country boy a couple of years ago and there were some fungi, that at first glance looked like edible mushrooms. He said to me it was a pity he didn't have a bag with him. I was certain that they were those mushroom look alikes as a few were lying on their sides and they had white gills.
We once consumed a mixed box from Tesco of oyster and another type of non standard mushroom. We both had stomach ache all night. I've never eaten anything but plain supermarket mushrooms since. My brother is pretty good on what fungi to eat and what not, and has done lovely meals with puff balls fried. I kind of trust those as the ID is fairly certain. However I am going back 30 years and I've never collected any myself since. I'd have to agree with Keith really. |
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Liz Heard
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Hi folks,
Sorry for late response - been v busy! Thanks for the contributions Suz, Keith and Gemma. You've got a great wildlife garden haven't you Suz? Impossible to ID to species level from pics alone but I'd say your first species looks like Golden Spindles Clavulinopsis and that the scurfy, orangey ones are Wax Caps Hygrocybe. Again, can't get closer than that. The mild poisonings only go show to that some 'edible' species can still 'disagree' with SOME people and this is the reason why many experts/websites and books are often reluctant to even discuss edibility. Personally, i've never had any problem though and don't know anyone who has. ALWAYS exercise caution! |
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Liz Heard
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Yellow Stainer Agaricus xanthodermus is responsible for a lot of mild poisonings like the 'country boy' one you mentioned Suz - owing to the fact that they look very similar to 'regular' Field Mushrooms. They cause stomach ache and nausea but not everyone is affected.
Identifying fungi (esp to species) can be very difficult or impossible, in the field and even experts can be completely stumped sometimes. On the other hand, i've noticed that just as some people are very good at remembering facial characteristics like bone structure and lip shape, and decades later can still recognise someone they never even knew from the pub despite the ravages of time, there are those with minds that can pick up on the salient (sometimes even the more subtle) characteristics of a species rapidly. 'Jizz' or "Seeing beyond the veil" as Noodles put it. So these are Yellow Stainer Mushrooms. They grow in the same grassy habitat as Field Mushrooms Agaricus campestris and the larger, Horse Mushrooms Agaricus arvensis. But in addition you can find them in woodland like the also similar and edible Wood Mushroom Agaricus silvicola. Typical disambiguating characteristics for Yellow Stainer include a slightly unpleasant smell, like ink or phenol and, on cutting or bruising, immediately turning yellow - esp at the base of the stem. Also, the caps often have a dark patch radiating out from the centre. Looks like a 'regular' mushroom: But note yellow bruising: and dark patch on cap: A few pics of the no.1 fatal poisoner - DEATH Cap Amanita phalloides. Note sickly light olive green cap (which often pales with maturity), crowded WHITE gills and volva - the basal sac from which it erupts: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DEADLY POISONOUS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Liz Heard
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Hello again folks!
A couple more from a species rich, ancient grassland site: We've had the common Parasol mushroom species already, but recently i was very pleased to find this unusual specimen with a distinctive single large scale 'blistering' towards the margin of the cap. It's the much less-observed Macrolepiota excoriata (ID has been confirmed) Next, a locally-common species. The slippery, campanulate caps are bright yellow when young - but alas, they fade with age. Yellow Fieldcap Bolbitius vitellinus fungi. |
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Rags
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Really enjoyed reading through this thread. I suddenly realise how little I know about fungi.
I know these have been posted earlier on but would like to share my photo of Earth Stars. These were the first I had ever seen, very strange looking things. These were at Blashford Lakes near Ringwood, late Autumn last year (2014). A reserve apparently well stocked with numerous species of Fungi. The only other thing I can add to the thread is this Latticed Stinkhorn (Clathrus ruber). A real stunner, however it was found in Andalucia a couple of years back. |
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Liz Heard
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Welcome to RAUK and thanks for the feedback Rags! Glad you've enjoyed it.
I agree Earth Stars - even by fungi standards - are very spectacular. They leap out so incongruously from the familiar conformity of the woodland floor- as if they were sci-fi artwork placed there by some fanatic for prank effect. They remind me a bit of the peeled open eggs in the Alien films! Love the Clathrus (Red Cage Fungus). They are uncommon here and i've ever seen one. Thanks for posting your fab find! cheers! |
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GemmaJF
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Just remember Ben with those earth stars, don't make the same mistake as John Hurt.. ..I mean you are sitting there thinking, 'don't lean over it, don't lean over it' and what does he do? The rest is sci-fi history.
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chubsta
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Hope you don't mind this being posted as they aren't necessarily recent sightings - just a wall-art that i received for Christmas of pictures my girlfriend took this year, quality of this iPhone photo is pretty poor but the actual item looks lovely!
Any you are able to id for me (we are useless at id'ing fungi when out and about) would be appreciated although i realise that may not be possible from such a picture... Edited by chubsta - 11 Jan 2015 at 8:53pm |
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Liz Heard
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Well when you encounter one for the first time and step on it, they do surprise you by spurting up a noxious-looking plume of spores in the direction of your face! Hi Chubsta, your lovely present does indeed look very neat! Always hard (often impossible) to ID from photos without details of substrate, smell etc etc and especially from a single-angle pic. But I certainly can help with some of these - though my ID confidence is a little variable here (very confident = *, likely but cannot be sure = **) and i can't take some of them to species level for the reasons given above - there are often too many lookalikes!: Top row L-R: Magpie Fungus (Coprinopsis picacea)*, Coprinus or Coprinopsis**, Calocera viscosa**, Macrolepiota or Lepiota* 2nd row: ? (several possibilities for genus), Honey Fungus (Armillaria)*, Shaggy Parasol (Chlorophyllum rhacodes)*, False Death Cap (Amanita citrina)* 3rd row: Stinkhorn (Phallus impudicus)*, ? (lots of possibilities), Stinkhorn*, Puffball (Lycoperdon)*, 4th row: Macrolepiota or Lepiota*, ?, Birch Polypore (Piptoporus betulinus)*, Amethyst Deceiver (Laccaria amethystina)** That last one is a beaut! |
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