ID please?

kat1e · #1 (**permalink**) 20-02-2010, 07:54 PM

What is this please? Seen today on a grassy track through mixed woodland. Thank you.

diggleken · #2 (**permalink**) 20-02-2010, 08:18 PM

Hi Katie, welcome to WAB!
I think this is a Tubaria spp, furfuracea or hiemalis, growing on buried wood.
Cheers
Ken

kat1e · #3 (**permalink**) 20-02-2010, 08:29 PM

Thank you, I'll have a look at that!

SheffieldLass · #4 (**permalink**) 20-02-2010, 10:50 PM

I think Galerina rather than Tubaria, though they are quite similar to look at. There are quite a lot of Tubaria furfuracea around at the moment though, but cap is generally a darker reddish brown, though it can dry quite ochre yellow, and usually does not have such obvious striations as this one.

Melanie

kat1e · #5 (**permalink**) 21-02-2010, 08:37 AM

Thank you, I shall have a look at those too.

stickman · #6 (**permalink**) 21-02-2010, 03:47 PM

I was thinking Galerina too. Maybe something along the lines of G.pumila.

Nick.

kat1e · #7 (**permalink**) 23-02-2010, 11:16 AM

Thanks for that Stickman, G. pumila definitely looks like a strong possibility.

Chris Yeates · #8 (**permalink**) 24-02-2010, 12:56 AM

if it is a Galerina I'm afraid there is no way you can come up with a specific name without doing the microscopy

boring but true . . . .

stickman · #9 (**permalink**) 24-02-2010, 05:11 PM

Chris is quite right of course (welcome back by the way Chris)

The species I mentioned was just meant as a point of reference (something for you to look up / google etc)- hence the "maybe" - and shouldn't be taken as a determination by any stretch of the imagination.

Cheers, Nick.