Need help with I.D please

[wildherbalian85]

Ok first for I.D is

1. This woodchip fungi...



easy to break aswell...



2. A first for my woodchip encounters.. any ideas??? (because i don't)




3. These where growing in leaf/ twig litter... i think they might be Jock O'lanterns...





4. A boletus of some kind...

[Chris Yeates]

hi

#2 looks very like Hypholoma marginatum (this is a conifer wood species - does that fit the type of wood-chip?)

the last one - the bolete is a Leccinum species - there has been a long thread about this genus very recently, with people who know more about it than me contributing - so hopefully someone will weigh in with some thoughts

cheers

Chris

[wildherbalian85]

Originally Posted by Chris Yeates

hi

#2 looks very like Hypholoma marginatum (this is a conifer wood species - does that fit the type of wood-chip?)

Chris

Yep the wood certainly was conifer, thanks for the I.D chris.

Interesting that Roger Mushroom does not have this specie on the Website

[NickCantle]

Generally means it's not found all too often

[wildherbalian85]

My thinking is number 1 might be a Gymnopilus of some kind.

interested also in number 3

[NickCantle]

That's wishful thinking there Ian and I admire your hopefulness, but number three looks disappointingly like Lepista flaccida

[wildherbalian85]

Originally Posted by NickCantle

That's wishful thinking there Ian and I admire your hopefulness, but number three looks disappointingly like Lepista flaccida

thanks for that I.D

was the wishfull thinking for number one??

[NickCantle]

Perhaps so mate, looks like Psathyrella to me. White stems and pale gills- what topped it was you saying they were easy to break (notes like that are important) suggesting that the stems were rather brittle as is distinctive in the genus Psathyrella.

You'll know if you find Gymnopilus- The common name belonging to this genus ('Rustgill') is apt. Gymnopilus gills are distinctive

[wildherbalian85]

Originally Posted by NickCantle

Perhaps so mate, looks like Psathyrella to me. White stems and pale gills- what topped it was you saying they were easy to break (notes like that are important) suggesting that the stems were rather brittle as is distinctive in the genus Psathyrella.

You'll know if you find Gymnopilus- The common name belonging to this genus ('Rustgill') is apt. Gymnopilus gills are distinctive

i basically used the edge of my hand to brake them

[NickCantle]

So they were brittle then?