2 for id please

[billybob99]

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the second one i'm not sure if this is fungi it was on the top of a mossy post

[NickCantle]

First looks like a Mycena, Mal's your man here.

Second looks like an old ropey specimen of Xylaria hypoxylon.

Nick

[Ken Burgess]

Originally Posted by NickCantle

First looks like a Mycena, Mal's your man here.

I'd suggest Mycena inclinata for this one.

Originally Posted by NickCantle

Second looks like an old ropey specimen of Xylaria hypoxylon.

It's actually an old ropey specimen of a Cladonia lichen.

Ken

[flaxton]

You would probably be OK labeling your first as Mycena galericulata.
Your second is the fruiting body of a lichen or moss I think and not a fungi at all. Hopefully someone from the Lichen sub forum will come forward and tell you exactly.

Mal

[Ken Burgess]

Originally Posted by flaxton

You would probably be OK labeling your first as Mycena galericulata.
Your second is the fruiting body of a lichen or moss I think and not a fungi at all. Hopefully someone from the Lichen sub forum will come forward and tell you exactly.

Mal

I think you must have been typing your post while I was posting mine. I'd still put my money on young Mycena inclinata rather than M. galericulata with that dark brown cap and the texture of the stipe surface.

Ken

[flaxton]

Ken

It certainly could be but I have found both pale and dark capped M galericulata with white stems and the same for M inclinata but the latter usually has more colour to the stem which is what I based my suggestion on.

Mal

[Ken Burgess]

It wasn't so much the colour of the stipe that I was looking at but more the fact that it is distinctly pruinose. In my experience Mycena inclinata tends to retain a pruinose appearance to the stem for some time, whereas the stem of Mycena galericulata is very soon smooth. But it's academic anyway since we have no microscopic information to make a definite determination.

Ken

[Alantb]

Originally Posted by flaxton

You would probably be OK labeling your first as Mycena galericulata.
Your second is the fruiting body of a lichen or moss I think and not a fungi at all. Hopefully someone from the Lichen sub forum will come forward and tell you exactly.

Mal

Hi Mal; I take it you mean it's not a fungus . . . .

Cheers, Alan

[flaxton]

Chris now you. It must be something to do with the pedantic Yorkshire lot .
I did mean to write fungi as there are numerous stalks but my finger slipped in an "a" before it

Mal