Newbie ID help?

[chrisandy]

Hello everybody!

Completely new to this so please bear with me I found these in my garden between my shed and greenhouse in a place where I previously tried growing Oyster Mushrooms a couple of years ago. There are a few logs lying around that are remnants of this attempt but these fungi were found growing in decomposing leaves in a very damp patch. They're quite pungent but in a pleasant way. They are firm and dry with the underside varying from a pinky brown to dark brown. I put a pen at the side of them to help show scale. There are some more that appear to be coming up and I will try to get some photos of those tomorrow. There are a couple of trees nearby but I'm not sure what they are. I'm in the East Midlands.

Any help with identification would be much appreciated.

[Ditiola]

Hi
Welcome to WAB

It is a species of Agaricus, but I would not like to make a guess at the species. They usually need looking at with a microscope to be sure of the species.

Peter

[fairplay]

I'm in complete agreement.

Neil.

[chrisandy]

Yep - did a lot of looking around and realised what a fascinating world this is. Can't be sure why this ended up in my garden but I'm ecstatic that it has - I've been growing veg organically for the past five years with great results in the past three years and so to find a naturally occuring fungi like this is like a tick of approval from mother nature. I certainly won't be taking it for granted that this is any particular species as I never realised how many there are out there. I remember something about a 'blushing' field mushroom and that was the nearest I got to identifying it. I have foxes, woodpeckers, rats, squirrels, finches etc in the garden so I imagine that spores are readily distributed.

Many thanks for your considered replies.