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03-11-2008, 10:37 AM
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| | | Russula atropurpurea or wood blewit
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| | | Re: Russula atropurpurea or wood blewit
Looks more like Pluteus cervinus to me. I have never seen either of your suggestions growing out of wood like that |
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| | | Re: Russula atropurpurea or wood blewit
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Originally Posted by leifus  | Leifus
What made you think it might be atropurpurea or the blewit?
Atropupurea has a dark purple cap and grows in grass near various trees
The blewit has lilac gills and grows in soil in mixed woodlands.
Growing on wood with this dark shiny streaked cap is definitely a Pluteus cervinus.
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03-11-2008, 05:49 PM
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| | | Re: Russula atropurpurea or wood blewit
Keep testing  If you can take photos like that you will soon be able to suss out the information to help you make an informed "guess" and you will improve quickly.
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03-11-2008, 06:04 PM
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Originally Posted by flaxton Keep testing If you can take photos like that you will soon be able to suss out the information to help you make an informed "guess" and you will improve quickly.
Mal | haha Thanks Mal, encouraging  I'm sending for the Phillips fungi book soon so I'll have a better idea before posting
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03-11-2008, 07:25 PM
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Originally Posted by NickCantle | and again Nick, thanks yeah I cant wait to get it
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03-11-2008, 09:08 PM
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If I could whizz back a couple of years when I got my copy of Phillips, I would also buy (or ask for as a present) Michael Jordan's excellent book too. Two years on, and I still haven't got it. Perhaps I should buy it this weekend
The two of those books will take you far, and will also help anyone realise that much literature on fungi contradicts other literature! Phillips and Jordan are a good example. The distribution listed of certain species differs between books, but it broadens your ideas of things.
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Originally Posted by NickCantle If I could whizz back a couple of years when I got my copy of Phillips, I would also buy (or ask for as a present) Michael Jordan's excellent book too. Two years on, and I still haven't got it. Perhaps I should buy it this weekend
The two of those books will take you far, and will also help anyone realise that much literature on fungi contradicts other literature! Phillips and Jordan are a good example. The distribution listed of certain species differs between books, but it broadens your ideas of things.
It'll all come together like a puzzle | right - ive heard of that one also - and im off to ask for it for Christmas
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