Yellow Stainer

[sarah64]

Hi peeps
My mum pointed this out to me growing in her garden yesterday. I dug it up and and base immediately started to show yellow. Upon slicing the base and lower stem immediately went yellow. Therefore would I be right in thinking this is the Yellow Stainer?

It's a naughty little mushroom, an hour or so after slicing it changed back to white and looked quite appealing. However, on squishing a bit it went chrome yellow again.

[fairplay]

Most likely they are Yellow Stainer, just enjoy the display and continue gardening.

Neil.

[Andy Overall]

Originally Posted by fairplay

Most likely they are Yellow Stainer, just enjoy the display and continue gardening.

Neil.

I would second that.

Andy

[sarah64]

Cheers guys, that's what I thought. I was just quite excited to see one. I have seen them before a long time ago in a graveyard in Swanage but haven't seen any since.

[PeteS]

The smell of a Yellow Stainer is very distinctive - a cross between old fashioned ink and errr... wee. Once you smell it you won't forget it!

[flaxton]

Originally Posted by PeteS

The smell of a Yellow Stainer is very distinctive - a cross between old fashioned ink and errr... wee. Once you smell it you won't forget it!

This specimen which I took to be a Yellow Stainer obviously wasn't then because it had no strong aroma at all or I have a poor sense of smell



Mal

[PeteS]

Hmm.. all the ones I have found always smell like this. Maybe a dog (or something/someone) weed on my examples

[flaxton]

Originally Posted by PeteS

Hmm.. all the ones I have found always smell like this. Maybe a dog (or something/someone) weed on my examples

Pete
No I know you were right I was just highlighting the fact that it is not a guaranteed way of identification. I have often found them with a distinctive aroma but not this time and it was, as the picture shows, a pretty striking reaction on the cap.

Mal

[PeteS]

Hello Mal,

Oh yes, of course. I would never use one feature to ID anyway. I have also found Yellow Stainers where the reaction to the cap has been inconclusive (probably due to age), but the small has been there.

On the subject of smell - In August I found a Cortinarius (Cortinarius dionysae I think) that looked, when mature, every bit like lepista nuda (Wood Blewit). I am good on Blewits, but I had it in my hand, cut it open etc and it still looked like a Wood Blewit. The season was wrong, although I have heard it said that Blewits can be found at any time of year, and the only other feature that was obviously different was the smell. Blewits have a very distinctive smell but this fungus did not. Every 'Blewit' that I find that does not have that smell I will not eat, even though every other feature says it's a Blewit. It's just not worth taking the risk.

Pete

[kiltoncomp]

Originally Posted by PeteS

Hello Mal,

Oh yes, of course. I would never use one feature to ID anyway. I have also found Yellow Stainers where the reaction to the cap has been inconclusive (probably due to age), but the small has been there.

On the subject of smell - In August I found a Cortinarius (Cortinarius dionysae I think) that looked, when mature, every bit like lepista nuda (Wood Blewit). I am good on Blewits, but I had it in my hand, cut it open etc and it still looked like a Wood Blewit. The season was wrong, although I have heard it said that Blewits can be found at any time of year, and the only other feature that was obviously different was the smell. Blewits have a very distinctive smell but this fungus did not. Every 'Blewit' that I find that does not have that smell I will not eat, even though every other feature says it's a Blewit. It's just not worth taking the risk.

Pete

going off the original topic (apologies to Sarah) , i found what i thought to be my first Lepista nuda of the season this morning, but these did not have the characteristic smell of wood blewit, although they resembled them in most other respects,
they were growing in a ring under oaks ,
would these be a cortinarius sp as you said ??



Brian.