fungi id please

[Keith Talbot]

hi all,

it looks as tho im joining the ever increasing queue for some fungi id (must be the time of year ),

i love taking pics of it and love the variation in size colour etc but am no good at id ing it so i can put it in the Gallery,

can some one help please,here's 2 for starters

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2

many thanks

keith

[Chris Yeates]

hello Keith

the first one looks like the early stages of what has been given the English name of Branching Oyster Pleurotus cornucopiae; there are quite a lot of laterally-attached gilled fungi and they belong to a range of often unrelated groups; the feature which points me towards that name is the way the gills run down the short stem and then seem to criss-cross - the books sometimes use the technical term 'anastomosing'; this species is very often seen on dead elm and when young is edible (it's related to the Oyster Mushroom) but please show the actual fungus to someone who knows what they are talking about before eating anything - don't rely on this ID! Interestingly this fungus - if I've named it correctly - is common in England but much less so in Scotland

the other fungus is, I'm pretty sure, Trametes versicolor the Turkeytail (I don't generally like the move towards trying to give every fungus an English name - but this one seems very appropriate) the scientific name versicolor means 'changing colour' and is also very apt; In some older fungus books you may find this under the name 'Coriolus versicolor'

I hope that helps

good, informative photo's, by the way - I like the limited palette of the Trametes in particular

best wishes

Chris

[Fungalpunk]

Turkey Tail is one of the few English names that work. I usually hold out my finger when leading a foray so as to represent the turkey's body and plonk a bit of the bracket near the knuckle. Face on other forayers get the drift.

Well they say they do!

FP/OMD

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by Fungalpunk

Turkey Tail is one of the few English names that work. I usually hold out my finger when leading a foray so as to represent the turkey's body and plonk a bit of the bracket near the knuckle. Face on other forayers get the drift.

Well they say they do!

FP/OMD

watch out come Christmas mate! times are hard you know, and people will get desperate!

[Fungalpunk]

I wondered why some of them had boxes of Paxo in their baskets! Thanks for that. Fingers well and truly hidden.

FP/OMD

[Keith Talbot]

Originally Posted by Fungalpunk

Turkey Tail is one of the few English names that work. I usually hold out my finger when leading a foray so as to represent the turkey's body and plonk a bit of the bracket near the knuckle. Face on other forayers get the drift.

Well they say they do!

FP/OMD

what an image that puts in the mind

thanks for the id