Fungi Identification

[tinahill]

Please could you help identify these - I have a dog and am worried about him accessing my grass and becoming ill.
Thanks

Tina

[ron1863]

Hi Tina and a warm welcome to WAB.
I don't know what the fungi are but someone will I.D. them for you. I wouldn't worry about the dog. I have yet to meet one that eats fungi. I take my dog long walks through woods that have hundreds of fungi and he has never taken much notice of them, just cocked his leg at a few of the larger ones though.

[Lancashire Lad]

Not sure at all on 1 & 3, but 2 & 4 look like they could be members of the Coprinus (Inkcap) family.

Does your camera have a macro setting? I think you might stand a better chance of ID's if you could upload a closer, clearer image of each of these.

As Ron says though, I wouldn't worry too much. My dogs ate allsorts of unsavory things in their time, and it never seemed to do them any harm.

Regards,
Mike.

[tinahill]

Thanks guys - I just want some reassurance - he is an old boy nearly 14 and we have just had this lawn laid and I found out they used mushroom compost - only some did't look right to me!
I'll try and get some better photos!!!

Tina

[ManwithNoname]

The first photo of a yellow growth on grass shows a myxomycete (i.e. a slime mould), possibly Fuligo septica.

The second could be an inkcap, as suggested (Coprinellus sp.?) but it could also be something else such as a Conocybe. The photo isn't clear enough.

The third shows a Panaeolus, one of the mottlegills.

The fourth is, as suggested, one of the small ink caps (Coprinopsis sp.?).

I don't know anything about toxicity of mushrooms to dogs, but I wouldn't be too concerned for my own dog with these particular genera present in my garden, even if he was daft enough to eat them.

[tinahill]

Thanks - I really appreciate your help.

I have some more photos of 2 and 3. 1 and 4 seem to only last a morning and then they disappear!

I guess I was also concerned about whether spores etc could get in his pores and then when he washes he could ingest them, I don't think he would do anything more than sniff at the actual fungi....but I could be wrong!

Tina

[SheffieldLass]

I'm quite envious of you having all those appearing in your lawn. I have to go out to find them ...

[tinahill]

Well there's your answer - have a new lawn laid using topsoil mixed with compost - mushroom compost from a mushroom farm!!

They didn't tell me it was mushroom compost when they did the lawn!