some fungi for ID

[Andy Overall]

Originally Posted by mollisia

Hallo Ken,

your foto shows Tubaria hiemalis/furfuracea, not Laccaria.

What concerns Laccaria proxima, this is distinctly bigger and more rubust than laccata and the stipe looks quite rough, like sawed wood that has never been polished, but dark brownred.
The Laccarias from pic 3 above may be are not laccata, but they are certainly not proxima.

best regards,
Andreas

Andreas

In answer to that, as you probably well know size varies a lot among fungi, depending on moisture etc especially genera such as Laccaria. I have found medium sized fruitbodies of both L. laccata and L. proxima and both with the stem chractersitics that you suggest, so in short I'm not buying that, especially with such diverse species as Laccaria laccata and L. proxima . L. proxima however does have distinct, small scales on the cap surface, which may not be so distinct during wet weather. Both species are very close both macroscopically and microscopically making them difficult to separate.

Andy

[Andy Overall]

Originally Posted by mollisia

Hallo Ken,

your foto shows Tubaria hiemalis/furfuracea, not Laccaria.

What concerns Laccaria proxima, this is distinctly bigger and more rubust than laccata and the stipe looks quite rough, like sawed wood that has never been polished, but dark brownred.
The Laccarias from pic 3 above may be are not laccata, but they are certainly not proxima.

best regards,
Andreas

Andreas,

The 2nd pic shows distinct small scales which would suggest L. proxima.

Andy