Two more for ID please.

[TeresaW]

It's me again

The first one was found yesterday morning, looking very delicate and shiny, slimy/wet to the touch, solitary growing alongside footpath in grass, near river, where there are a lot of nettle, sedge, rushes and clovers. The second two are the same specimen today, grown double the size.








This next one, I should be able to find somewhere, but I'm going cross-eyed looking. I know it's going to be obvious but hey!. This one was found in the middle of a patch of stinkhorn under a spindle, with a lot of beech debris, again alongside the river. I thought it was a stinkhorn egg stage that had failed, but when I accidentally knocked it with my foot, I could see clearly it wasn't. I managed, by taking an out-of-focus shot of the gills, to get a close-up of the root if that helps. (well I was holding my breath )







Thanks again for looking

[cybershot]

First is possibly an Entoloma species

The second is a classic young, wrinkly Pluteus cervinus

David

[TeresaW]

See? I said it would be obvious. Yes Pluteus cervinus compares nicely with mine. Thanks David


I suppose microscopy would be needed to determine which Entoloma, which I don't have access to.

[flaxton]

You didn't happen to notice if the first one had a volval bag. It looks a bit like Volvariella gleocephala.

Mal

[ManwithNoname]

Originally Posted by flaxton

You didn't happen to notice if the first one had a volval bag. It looks a bit like Volvariella gleocephala.

Mal

Yes, I'd agree. Entoloma would have pink gills from the ripening pink spores but the gills would be attached to the stem.

The gills on this specimen are pink (so pink spores) and free from the stem, which indicates Pluteus or Volvariella. As Mal says, this looks like Volvariella gloiocephala, which would have a volval sac at the base of the stem.

[TeresaW]

Hi Mal, no I didn't notice, but it does look like it doesn't it? I'll see if it's still there tomorrow, I left it in situ again, as it was solitary.

[ManwithNoname]

Originally Posted by TeresaW

Hi Mal, no I didn't notice, but it does look like it doesn't it? I'll see if it's still there tomorrow, I left it in situ again, as it was solitary.

Seems we posted at the same time. I'm pretty sure it will have a volval sac, as it doesn't look like a Pluteus to me.

[TeresaW]

It's such a pretty and delicate little thing, I was pleased to have found it, and doubly pleased it was still here today, rather than having been knocked down by some unsuspecting dog. Hopefully, with a bit more rain due tomorrow I may find some more in a few days though.

[fairplay]

When I first became interested in fungi about 30 years ago, I found a whole field full of Volvariella gloiocephala and wanted to take a few home to cook, but I was so scared by the warnings in the book of it's (very vague, I know) similarity to the Death Cap that I dare not risk it.
Of course all I had to do was look underneath a mature cap to see the pink gills (plus the absence of trees), but I didn't trust my judgement.

25 years later, I had a phone call from a fungal beginner in Lowestoft asking me to "Come up and have a look at these Destroying Angels - they're everywhere" I took great delight in being able to tell him he only needed to look at the gills of a mature specimen.

Neil.

[TeresaW]

My little fungus was still there again today, and yes it did have a volval bag. Unfortunately, the photo's I took of it were too blurred. That's what you get for going free-hand

So I can assume it will be Volvariella gloiocephala


For the last few days, I've been hunting everywhere for fly agaric. I finally found one today, right outside my window!