Summer fungi flush

[SheffieldLass]

I've just been out today and delighted to find fungi mushrooming all over the place. Not quite up to autumn standards, but plenty out there, more in the woods, particularly coniferous, than in grassland. Must be all the rain we'e just had. Anyone else finding it is good out there right now?

Now I've got to work out what some of them are ... Boletus aestivalis was one species I could recognise straight off, but they were past their prime and well eaten by slugs, so won't be supper. Just another 19 species to id, that should take all this evening and more ...

Melanie

[NickCantle]

Do keep us updated wont you Mel

I went for a wander today to the heath and found four medium-sized Amanita strobiliformis.

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by SheffieldLass

. . . Anyone else finding it is good out there right now? . . . .
Melanie

yes - but you know me Melanie - I'll look at anything - it's been good since Jan 1st! never short of something to look at (and get confused by!)

best

C

[diggleken]

I agree Melanie - the wet stuff seems to have brought out more than normal for the time of year - most of which I have posted cos I dont know what it is .......to my untrained eye............Pluteus, Conocybes, Ceratiomyxa etc ...............?
Cheers
Ken

[FungiJus]

Looking forward to getting out there at the weekend - reckon it should be about time for Agaricus campestris and his chums?

[SheffieldLass]

Originally Posted by NickCantle

Do keep us updated wont you Mel

Well most have been identified .... always takes longer than I thought:

Russula ... either foetens, grata ... I've got the spore print to take round to a friend who has oil immersion lens

Russula ... not id'd to species ... grey, under oak.
Boletus aestivalis
Gymnopus androsaceus (Marasmius androsaceus)
Gymnopus peronatus (Collybia peronata)
Lachnum virgineum (id thanks to Andreas)
Mycena pearsoniana (fits slightly better than M kuehneriana, but I've a spore print of that waiting to go to the same friend who has Melzers, which will determine between the two)
Agrocybe pediades
Panaeolus cinctulus
Panaeolus fimicola
Panaeolina foenisecii
Calocera viscosa
Dacrymyces stillatus
Marasmius oreades

Just been out again this evening, got soaked through ... there is so much stuff coming through though. I've now got a new big pile to work my way through ... Acrocybe all over the fields, and also so many Panaeolus the fields are in places almost grey with them. And my first Hygrocybe of the new season ... very small ones, not quite sure which yet, and I suspect ones I've not recorded before on the site. Also an Amanita (rubescens, I think .. it was rather small, just through, I'll go back tomorrow to get a photo as it was in very photogenic surroundings and tonight the light wasn't good). Some more Boletus spp and different Russula sp. And it was too wet to walk through the long grass in the best field, so could have missed many more ....

Melanie