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27-08-2008, 06:18 PM
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| |  Fungi,any ideas?
These first were growing under beech possibly on dead wood as there was a lot of it buried in the area.  
This next photo didn't come out well but it is hard and putty grey with a slightly stippled surface. 
In a crack in the same tree I spied this fungal growth....... 
And I put this picture on because they looked so pretty hiding from the mowers  
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27-08-2008, 06:21 PM
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I have a feeling that number one is a Psathyrella. Not sure about two- it's immature whatever it is. Same with three.
I presume you know your fourth (and very lovely!) picture is Chlorophyllum rhacodes  |
27-08-2008, 06:29 PM
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Originally Posted by NickCantle  I have a feeling that number one is a Psathyrella. Not sure about two- it's immature whatever it is. Same with three.
I presume you know your fourth (and very lovely!) picture is Chlorophyllum rhacodes | The Chlorophyllum rhacodes looked so pretty I didn't even pick them for munching.......... 
As for that grey fungal thing,I hope it isn't something nasty,it is cropping up in several places in the local parkland 
It looks just like the stuff growing on an old stump I posted previously........
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27-08-2008, 08:26 PM
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Originally Posted by village wench The Chlorophyllum rhacodes looked so pretty I didn't even pick them for munching..........
As for that grey fungal thing,I hope it isn't something nasty,it is cropping up in several places in the local parkland
It looks just like the stuff growing on an old stump I posted previously........ | I'm glad about that (not picking it for munching) since some people are sensitive to it and get bad stomach upsets !
No. 1 is Psathyrella multipedata
No's 2 & 3 are immature (probably polypores) - impossible to put a name to I'm afraid.
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27-08-2008, 08:30 PM
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Woo! I didn't do too badly |
27-08-2008, 09:03 PM
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Originally Posted by mykonik I'm glad about that (not picking it for munching) since some people are sensitive to it and get bad stomach upsets !
No. 1 is Psathyrella multipedata
No's 2 & 3 are immature (probably polypores) - impossible to put a name to I'm afraid.
Nick | They taste really good in a nice meaty winter stew...........and give me no problems whatsoever,I also dry them and grind them up as an extra meaty flavour for soups and things. I have to confess though to only eating what the old groundsman has confirmed he can eat,you don't get to be old enough to Methuselah's grandfather by eating the deadly ones
Thanks for the brittlestem ID Psathyrella multipedata,looking through my books I couldn't come to a decision.
As for the 'putty' I am watching it with a bit of a frown  ,there seems to be something a bit unhealthy about some of the really old trees round here and lots of them seem to be sporting something similar,it may just be that they are on their last legs,hope it doesn't turn out to be a nasty
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27-08-2008, 09:11 PM
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I've seen Root Rot start off like this, but I've never seen it on Taxus, nor do I know that it does. |
27-08-2008, 09:21 PM
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The picture may be deceptive as well as bad the tree is I think something similar to a cedar,definitely not a yew/taxus  sorry should have pointed that out. As it is in some proper planted parkland it is probably a Lebanon cedar - Cedrus libani.
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27-08-2008, 09:24 PM
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Ah apologies |
27-08-2008, 09:35 PM
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Originally Posted by village wench They taste really good in a nice meaty winter stew...........and give me no problems whatsoever,I also dry them and grind them up as an extra meaty flavour for soups and things. I have to confess though to only eating what the old groundsman has confirmed he can eat,you don't get to be old enough to Methuselah's grandfather by eating the deadly ones
Thanks for the brittlestem ID Psathyrella multipedata,looking through my books I couldn't come to a decision.
As for the 'putty' I am watching it with a bit of a frown ,there seems to be something a bit unhealthy about some of the really old trees round here and lots of them seem to be sporting something similar,it may just be that they are on their last legs,hope it doesn't turn out to be a nasty | Your'e lucky !
We had (and I'm sure, still get) quite a few poisoning enquiries in from various hospitals when I worked at Kew and several of them involved Chlorophyllum rachodes !! I think it may be just personal idiosyncracy though with that species though !
But on your other comment re:the groundsman - it was at one time thought quite innocuous to eat both Paxillus involutus and Gyromitra esculenta (the latter even given the name esculenta since it was so delicious) but these are actually both deadly poisonous and the poisoning is cumulative !! Over a period of years !
Not being a scaremonger but if you really want to get to the age of Methuselah be selective and careful about what you do scoff !! And don't believe all of the literature either with regard to edibility !! There have been numerous poisonings from the supposedly wonderful esculent polypore Laetiporus sulphureus (Chicken of the Woods) - some people get no symptoms, whilst other really suffer horrible gastrointestinal symptoms !!!
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