Fungi ID........

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Found this clump on a sawn-down oldish huge beech stump on Astley Moss this morning (no great white egret I'm afraid) but saw these in passing and decided to take a few feeling sure I had a Pluteus ........ however I can find nothing that fits? The colour I haven't messed about with - its that pale - it is also reddening (in the way that agrarics can and do) and an older nastier bit was reddening even more where it was damaged....... the gills appear to be white? What does anyone make of it? A white version of umbrosus?





Pauline

[CapAndBracket]

Certainly look interesting.
The only thing i can think of is Hypsizygus ulmaris, something i've never seen.

Cheers J.P.

[NickCantle]

If it were a white form of Pluteus, I'd say that Pluteus thompsonii would fit the bill slightly better than P. umbrosus- purely on the fact that the veins are so prominent. The veins are surely something distinct, but you have to know what genus you're looking at first

Looks like you're on to something good there Pauline.

[Fungalpunk]

Oudemansiella mucida - come on Pauline - £5 on it ha, ha

FP/OMD

[PMG]

Originally Posted by Fungalpunk

Oudemansiella mucida - come on Pauline - £5 on it ha, ha

FP/OMD

Yes I'm quite sure you are right - I already owe you a fiver - so this is another! Not got mircro out yet - too busy going to Astley and getting the great white - at last - photos will appear shortly - then its back to the fungi - cos the fungi can't fly away!!!

Pauline

[Fungalpunk]

A cheque will do Mrs Greenhalgh ha, ha. Great White Sharks in Astley - wow - looking forward to the pics.

Fungalpunk Dave

[PMG]

Originally Posted by Fungalpunk

A cheque will do Mrs Greenhalgh ha, ha. Great White Sharks in Astley - wow - looking forward to the pics.

Fungalpunk Dave

Yes a cheq is on my list of to-do things............ The GW is up on here and the 'birdy place' as I haven't had anything worth putting on there for a while. The success with the GW and the resulting troll thro 211 images to resolve the best has taken the best part of the day: shopping and feeding has taken this evening so the microscope has yet again not come out of its box. However, we did go down the other road at Astley to check that big fallen beech and I'm as sure as I can be without micro proof - that your idea of Porcelain Fungus that has gone off/over is 100% spot on.



Well done OMD I would not have thought of it - but all the correct signs are there - its turned grey; the gills are widely spaced and end just short of the cap edge in that oh so characteristic way; the stipe is thin and the fragile almost gone remains of the ring is just there. Because of the Chyrsosperma-look and colour appearing under the biggest oldest cap I still suspect that a mould fungus has infected this particular little group - while the one's I photographed on the next log were in belting condition:



So well done my mate - thats another solved

Pauline

[Fungalpunk]

Just highlights the variation in species and what we have to contend with. Hence the reason we leave a blue trail of expletives behind when you see myself and Pauline mushrooming. Oh yes - many a word uttered with real venom. My little un' even keeps a tally on who swears the most - terrible really.

Double or nothing on the next one Pauline!!!

FP/OMD