Fungi for ID please.

[timhale197200]

Found growing in a hedgerow with leaf litter. An ID confirmation would be much apreciated. Thanks.

[NickCantle]

Two different species from where I'm sitting Tim. I would hazard a vague guess at a Mycena for the first.

As for the second, it looks much like Volvariella gloiocephala.

[timhale197200]

Thanks Nick. I thought the second one was just an older version of the first. They were only a matter of inches apart.

[SheffieldLass]

I'm inclined to think they are the same species, just to be awkward, that the first has only partially dried. That little umbo and the way they seem to flatten in age looks very similar in both.

My first instinct on the first was Mycena until I saw the second, and the gill colour certainly goes against that. It looks as if the spores are possibly purple brown, so I'm wondering if it might be the same as I found the other day, Psathyrella spadiceogrisea. The stipe shape and colour looks right, and the way the cap dries also looks right. Habitat is right too. Some do seem to form this little umbo, though most are smoothly domed, but they do seem to flatten in the same way that these are doing. But I could be barking up completely the wrong tree.

Melanie

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by SheffieldLass

. . . .It looks as if the spores are possibly purple brown, so I'm wondering if it might be the same as I found the other day, Psathyrella spadiceogrisea. The stipe shape and colour looks right, and the way the cap dries also looks right. . . .
Melanie

Yes, when I saw that expallent cap on the top photo my first thought was Psathyrella

Chris

[cybershot]

Though not nearly as conical a fourth specimen in this scattered group found today also flattened out with a distinct umbo and the cap dried very much paler and splitting in the process. Also giving a reddish-brown spore print. But would not be able to pin it down to a specific without microscopy.

David