Lots of fungi for ID

BarbaraEmma · #1 (**permalink**) 27-10-2009, 08:23 PM

This seems to be a brilliant time of year for fungi of all kinds.I know absolutely nothing about them but I can't resist looking for them.Here are some I found today,can someone identify them for me please.Barbara

Chris Yeates · #2 (**permalink**) 27-10-2009, 08:32 PM

hi - my initial thoughts are:

1 - Coprinus comatus - shaggy ink-cap + other English names

2 - Parasola species (Coprinus relative) - needs microscopy

3 - Hygrocybe virginea (a waxcap)

4 - Galerina sp. - again microscopy . . .

5 - Psilocybe sp. . . . merdaria or similar - ditto

6 - Psilocybe semilanceata (liberty cap)

best wishes

Chris

BarbaraEmma · #3 (**permalink**) 27-10-2009, 10:20 PM

Thanks for the ID's Chris,The only one I had any idea about was the Shaggy Ink-cap,a very easy one for me to remember.Of the other ones, I can see No 2 looks rather like a parasol,so I might get that one next time.I've found Waxcaps before,but this white one is a new one for me. No4 I thought might be another waxcap but I was wrong,no big surprise there

The last one seems to be a Magic one and related to the last but one,there were quite a lot of those about.
The different types you can find in a small area is fascinating,thank you for helping , I've got some more if your interested . Barbara

BarbaraEmma · #4 (**permalink**) 27-10-2009, 10:36 PM

Here are some more I found today in the same small area of grazing land.
I'm not aiming to become anywhere near an expert I would just like to have some idea of what I'm looking at.Thanks Barbara

cybershot · #5 (**permalink**) 27-10-2009, 10:45 PM

What a lucky girl to have found such a splendid specimen of Hygrocybe calyptriformis - Pink Waxcap

BarbaraEmma · #6 (**permalink**) 27-10-2009, 11:07 PM

Wow, I actually thought that's what it could be ,from looking in the Gallery.
I'm stuck on the others though,so I'll have to wait for someones help.Thanks Barbara.

cybershot · #7 (**permalink**) 27-10-2009, 11:42 PM

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Originally Posted by BarbaraEmma

Wow, I actually thought that's what it could be ,from looking in the Gallery.
I'm stuck on the others though,so I'll have to wait for someones help.Thanks Barbara.

Good to know that someone uses the other WAB resources for guidance: By no means conclusive by any stretch of the imagination, but as good as any for an initial reference for a steer in the right direction if one has at least an inkling.

Chris Yeates · #8 (**permalink**) 28-10-2009, 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by BarbaraEmma

Here are some more I found today in the same small area of grazing land.
I'm not aiming to become anywhere near an expert I would just like to have some idea of what I'm looking at.Thanks Barbara

hi

2nd one looks like an Entoloma, and the bottom one I think is a mature, expanded Stropharia semiglobata

best

Chris

BarbaraEmma · #9 (**permalink**) 28-10-2009, 08:55 PM

Thanks once again Chris and Cybershot,I'm really surprised that I can find so many different types quite easily.
I was talking to another woman yesterday who as out walking her dog,she was interested in what I was doing . Today when I met her again she had a book on Fungi and was busily trying to identify all the different ones she could find.She said it was my fault (jokingly) and when I left she was still looking.

Here are a few more from today ,if someone would be kind enough to ID them .Thanks Barbara

thebeard · #10 (**permalink**) 28-10-2009, 10:42 PM

the first one is clavulinopsis helvola methinks! second might be a Conocybe??? nice collection in general, i like a bit of grassland fungi, might pop down to one of my old haunts at the weekend actually!