help om ID for fungi

[cherrybee]

Originally Posted by leifus

do you realise that your 'tar spot' is actually a harlequin ladybird?

oer I did notice the ladybird but as it was the leaf I was concentrating on.This was in Church Rd Nick where I went in September when I visited my friend so the harlequin was in your neck of the woods

[SheffieldLass]

Originally Posted by NickCantle

What I learnt, was the most effective way of identifying is to look at key features. Features such as substrate, taste, smell- all of which are described in good books such as Jordan or Phillips.

Ask more questions than you answer, that way it keeps a thread going and sometimes leads to interesting debate about the species in which lots of distinguishing information is shared. )

Nick

I'd agree with both of those sentences ...

If you are into using smell, and have some very basic French, the following could be a very useful website ... the author of the website has been through Courtecuisse, Bon and a few other books and made a list by family of all the fungi with interesting smells and the descriptions of the smell by the different authors. (And you can also learn the French common names at the same time .... )

Liste des Principales Espèces Odoriférantes

I found it when I was trying to decide whether a nitrous smelling hygrocybe type I kept finding was really a hygrocybe or something else, because it didn't quite fit H nitrata or H ingrata .... (After long deliberation it appears to be H ingrata forma minor .... )

Melanie