Help!!

[railwayman]

Hi All,
My pic is in image archive- recent photos - unidentified fungi - Forum imager cannot get it in forum though regards Dave

[Wild-Woman]

Is it this one mate?


Hope you didn't mind me putting it up for you!

[Fungus Ken]

There's not a lot of information to go on in the photo.

- The fungus seems to be growing in soil, although there could be buried wood.
- The "fruiting bodies" are growing in a fasiculate manner, ie in a cluster.
- The cap is convex, a somewhat shiny dark chocolate brown colour, and innately radially fibrillose ie you can see fine lines running out from the centre in the texture of the cap cuticle.
- The stem seems to have a grey-brown fibrillose surface.

But we don't know:

- the colour of the gills or the type of gill attachment;
- the colour of the spores;
- whether there was a ring on the stem (could be hidden beneath the caps);
- whether this is a saprotroph and, if so, what it is feeding on.

Lyophyllum is the first thing that occurs to me, and Lyophyllum decastes, clustered domecap, is a very variable species, although the cap does seem very dark in colour. This species would have white spores and no ring on the stem.

The more information you can provide with the photo, the better the chance of getting a firm identification. A photo of the gills certainly helps, as does an indication of the spore colour.

Ken