Dying to know what they are, please help to id

Oxford patient · #1 (**permalink**) 26-10-2009, 11:37 AM

Snapped a few autumnal fungi, and dying to know what they are. Please help me to id them.

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Cheers,
Oxford patient

Geoff23 · #2 (**permalink**) 26-10-2009, 12:13 PM

3,5 and the background to 6 are very easy (which is why I'm answering). They are Sulphur Tuft (Hypholoma fasciculare). They are the commonest of all of the larger fungi. I find them every time I go out.

NickCantle · #3 (**permalink**) 26-10-2009, 02:30 PM

The first could be Clitopilus prunulus with that silvery sheen and decurrent gills, but that's a very vague suggestion.

The fourth is certainly Volvariella gloiocephala (Prev. syn. V. speciosa).

Hope that helps,

Nick

PMG · #4 (**permalink**) 26-10-2009, 02:38 PM

No 2 poss Stropharia aurantiaca? Depends on what sort of woodchip its growing on??

Oxford patient · #5 (**permalink**) 26-10-2009, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Oxford patient

Snapped a few autumnal fungi, and dying to know what they are. Please help me to id them.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

Cheers,
Oxford patient

Three more, please.

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8.

9.

The latter three all seem to grow on the residual roots of Ash tree.
Many thanks for the anwsers so far.
Oxford patient

Geoff23 · #6 (**permalink**) 26-10-2009, 05:13 PM

You should already know what 7 and 9 are...

Lancashire Lad · #7 (**permalink**) 26-10-2009, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Geoff23

You should already know what 7 and 9 are...

And 8 looks like Chondrostereum purpureum - Silverleaf fungus. (Nice shot btw).

Regards,
Mike.

Oxford patient · #8 (**permalink**) 26-10-2009, 08:13 PM

Dear Nick, Geoff, Mike and Pauline,
Many thanks again.
OP

Oxford patient · #9 (**permalink**) 27-10-2009, 06:10 PM

Just got this today. This one grows on the old chestnet roots in the same area of the sulphur tuft displayed above. Can it also be sulphur tuft but at a very late stage of life or something else completely different?

From one angle

and from the opposite with close up

Cheers,
Oxford patient

Geoff23 · #10 (**permalink**) 27-10-2009, 06:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Oxford patient

Just got this today. This one grows on the old chestnet roots in the same area of the sulphur tuft displayed above. Can it also be sulphur tuft but at a very late stage of life or something else completely different?

This one doesn't look like Sulphur Tuft, and I will be impressed if anybody at all can identify a species of mushroom once it has got to this sort of condition.

(ETA: and I'm now half-expecting somebody to tell me it is Sulphur Tuft...)