More unidentified fungi

[JennyS]

Despite having recently got a copy of Collins 'Mushrooms and Toadstools' I'm floundering and help with IDs for the below would be much appreciated!

1. On beech


2. Under Beech and conifers - Leylandii or Lawsons cypress (I think)


3. At base of Silver Fir


4. Under Birch - I'd have been ok for ID if it had had spots!


5. Below an ornamental Alder, but there were willows close and probably bits of rotten wood in the ground.


6. Weird one, started out looking like a boiled egg coming up, now the texture is slimy, feels like it would go to mush if poked. Under a clump of bamboo I'd just cut back.


Thanks in advance,
Jenny

[fairplay]

Hi Jenny,

Your first looks like good old Trametes versicolor, but one always has to be careful with old specimens, even more so when the shot of the pores leaves a bit of doubt. (The pores look on the big side) Chris will put me right !
No2 - Maybe a very distorted Laccaria lacatta
No3 - Pass !
No4 - You were right, the spots are washed off, but it is A. muscaria.
No5 - An ornamental Inocybe ! but I won't push my luck trying to ID it down to species level.
No6 - A Stinkhorn 'egg' - it may have burst open by now, take another look.

Neil.

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by JennyS

Despite having recently got a copy of Collins 'Mushrooms and Toadstools' I'm floundering . . . .

nothing against the book at all, but you will flounder!

floundering is what mycology (and a very specialist form of marine angling) is about . . . nothing beats seeing these things again and again in all their variety for starting to get a handle on them

that's why I keep repeating that I like the micro's - they're just more consistent and less likely to trip you up

nothing to add much other than to say that I think that number 5 is a section Telamonia Cortinarius species

stick with it Jenny!

best

Chris

[fairplay]

Just shows how frightened I am of Inocybe and Cortinarius spp.

For years now, I thought if you find Inocybe's young enough they can have a bit of a cortina as well.

Oh well.

Neil.

[ManwithNoname]

Originally Posted by fairplay

For years now, I thought if you find Inocybe's young enough they can have a bit of a cortina as well.

Of course they can. Many genera typically have a cortina, not just Cortinarius. It just so happens that, in this case, photo 5 does show a Cortinarius.

[wildherbalian85]

Well the only obvious one to me is the Amanita Muscaria

[JennyS]

Thanks for the replies and IDs - the Stinkhorn is developing nicely!

The only vague possibility I came across for No.3 was Macrotyphula fistulosa var. contorta, Pipe Club variety - but the habitat was wrong as it was definitely at the base of a fir .....

[FungiJus]

Bit of a long shot perhaps, but could No. 3 be a really young Sparassis crispa?

[fairplay]

That's a good call FungiJus, any chance of going back in a few days for another look Jenny ?

Neil.

[SheffieldLass]

Originally Posted by Chris Yeates

that's why I keep repeating that I like the micro's - they're just more consistent and less likely to trip you up


Chris

LOL Extremely unlikely to trip you up.