Id Please

[SusieBee]

Could anyone help id this one please? Delighted to find it on my evening walk, it's my first find so please be kind Havn't got a id book yet!

Thanks in advance for any help.
Cheers SusieBee

[watsthat]

Hi SusieBee

I`ve got plenty of fungus guides, mainly the readily available ones, but it hasn`t turned me into a mycologist, not even anywhere near. With a few notable exceptions its` very difficult to identify to species, especially from a picture. However; I will hazard a guess at Bolbitius sp (i.e. a species within the Bolbitius genera)and wait to be shot down in flames.

Cheers

Pete

[Chris Yeates]

not shooting anyone down - the Bolbitius / Conocybe area looks likely

unfortunately from a fruit-body picture like that there is often not enough to go on - plus when a fruit-body starts to age and desiccate like this one then macro-characters such as whether the species is hygrophanous, gill-colour changes from young to mature, smell etc. can all disappear

keep looking Susie - you're bound to find lots more; the ideal is several fruit-bodies, at different stages, photographed from various angles . . . . though that is an ideal

best

Chris

[SusieBee]

Thanks Pete and Chris for replies...Looks likely to be - the Bolbitius / Conocybe area, well that's good enough for me.

Tis complicated stuff this for a beginner but fascinating all the same.

And thanks for the encouragement to keep looking Chris I braved my first walk in the woods for years yesterday and had a wonderful day. Found lots more like you said, felt like finding treasure! Took lots of photo's, will try and upload later. Hope at least some will be a few of the notable exceptions to id from a picture.

Thanks again

Cheers SusieBee