Fungi Id please

[mudcow007]

Hi all

i have a twisted hazel growing in my garden and my mother decided to do a bit of gardening, found these growing beneath the hazel an pulled em out...god knows why!

any ideas what they are? i thought they looked a little like penny buns?







sorry about the iffy pics..

[alge]

hi mudcow, Unfortunately I cant tell you what they are exactly, I'm far from experienced but i can assure that they are not penny buns. Cep, Penny bun or even Boletus edulis however you like to say it has spongy pores under the cap & not gills as the third photo shows. Back to what is it that your mother gardened....phew i'd throw something along the Hebeloma genus. A pretty dry example, which wil now be corrected by someone who knows

Alex

P.s i've just noticed on a another thread which is relvant to your images, its that your images are not up loaded onto this website's library first and then added to your post as thumbnails, so they may get removed by the wildaboutbritain moderators.

[Chris Yeates]

unfortunately the gill shot is blurry, but these do indeed look like a Hebeloma species; it's a difficult genus and requires microscopy and even then can be tricky

regards

Chris

[mudcow007]

thanks all

ahh sorry about the pics, i normally use photobucket for forum pics....i will see about changing them,

back to the shrooms, i will try and take some better pics if the mushrooms havent been thrown away

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by mudcow007

thanks all

ahh sorry about the pics, i normally use photobucket for forum pics....i will see about changing them,

back to the shrooms, i will try and take some better pics if the mushrooms havent been thrown away

to be honest I wouldn't worry too much if they have gone the way of all flesh . . . the first choice one is presented with in the key in the most recent volume on European Hebeloma species says:

Cortina [i.e. veil] present but often fugacious; caulocystidia only present at the top of the stem; cheilocystidia with a ± cylindrical apical part, often widened in lower half . . . ; perispore never loosening (PO)

or:
Cortina absent; caulocystidia often continuing to the base of the stem; cheilocystidia often with a different shape; perispore loosening or not (PO-4)

now a really good macro shot of the stem might just about be able to show the state of the caulocystidia, but after that it gets a bit technical

Hebeloma sp. is the best you'll get I'm afraid

Chris