ID Help Please - Sickener?

DavyG · #1 (**permalink**) 20-09-2009, 10:10 AM

I found this in a Suffolk woodland, next to a lake, yesterday.

Looking through the Black's Nature Guide to Mushrooms and Toadstools, it looks like it may be a Sickener, Russula?

I'd appreciate any guidance.

Dave

Lancashire Lad · #2 (**permalink**) 20-09-2009, 10:13 AM

Don't think it's a Russula Davy.
More Likely a Fly Agaric Amanita muscaria with most of the white bits of veil remnants washed off.

Regards,
Mike.

DavyG · #3 (**permalink**) 20-09-2009, 10:20 AM

Thanks Mike,

Looking again I can see the similarity, particularly the hanging part on the stem.

I have a lot to learn!

Dave

fairplay · #4 (**permalink**) 20-09-2009, 07:30 PM

Dave,

Whereabouts did you find this, as I've yet to see any in Suffolk this year,
I even went across the border into Norfolk for 2 forays today and saw none, although we saw a few other agarics.

Neil.

DavyG · #5 (**permalink**) 20-09-2009, 08:16 PM

Neil,

I found this one at Staverton Lakes, it was a single specimen, we saw no other fungi at all.

I hope this helps.

Dave

fairplay · #6 (**permalink**) 20-09-2009, 08:29 PM

Thanks Dave,

I shall add this to the county list as first sighting this year for A.muscaria in Suffolk.

Neil.

DavyG · #7 (**permalink**) 20-09-2009, 09:06 PM

Thanks Neil,

I'm surprised this is a first for the year but I don't know much about Fungi.

Where can I find the county list?

Dave

fairplay · #8 (**permalink**) 21-09-2009, 12:12 PM

On the public notice board outside the County Council Offices.

If only things were that simple !
At the present moment, they are all on a database in my computer with more to follow from my note books, diary's, scraps of paper and from anyone else (whom I consider to be competent with their ID's) with lists to pass on to me.

You can still obtain the old County Fungal Records, compiled by Ellis & Ellis, from the Suffolk Naturalists Society c/o Ipswich Museum, in the High St, for about £5.

In the meantime, only having been the Suffolk Recorder for about 6 months and having all the old and new records/claims passed on to me to sort out/ scrutinize, and in some cases reject, I have still to decide what format I am going to use and who's paying for it.
The main problem has been trying to find out who the unknown people are and what experience they have had, did they use a microscope to determine their finds, or did they just simply look at the photos in Phillip's ?

It is all too easy to buy yourself a nice big picture book, after a few years proclaim yourself a self taught expert, then maybe discover your county has a fungus group, join up, then come back to earth with a bang.

Anyway, stick with WAB Dave, you will learn a hell of a lot from this site which you won't find from books.

Neil.