Fungi ID please?

kingfu · #1 (**permalink**) 11-04-2010, 07:34 PM

Thought I'd do a little foraging for a change using the little food for free collins gem book on one of my many walks. Using the book found this little fellow on his own in the middle of a field and hope someone can ID for me? I thought it might be an Fairy Ring Champignon?

flaxton · #2 (**permalink**) 11-04-2010, 08:09 PM

Hi
Welcome to WAB. Definitely not Marasmius oreades (the Fairy Ring Champignon) which has wider spaced gills and produces white spores. Your find looks as though it would produce a mid/dark brown. I would suggest an Agrocybe sp.
Mal

Chris Yeates · #3 (**permalink**) 11-04-2010, 08:11 PM

firstly welcome to WAB

secondly . . . . aaaargh! do be careful

for a start that looks like it's going to be a dark-spored species - have you prepared a spore-print? - if it has dark spores it isn't a Marasmius; also you don't look to have all the stipe (stem) there - characters of the stipe-base can be important in diagnosis (of the fungus that is, not the potential patient

)

from what one can see, your fungus looks rather like a Psathyrella and the classic spring one is Psathyrella spadiceogrisea which could well be what this is - but . . . . .

you will note that there is an embargo on "is my fungus edible?" posts on this site; I fully appreciate that this is not what you have done here, but do be careful - there are thousands of larger fungi out there, only a tiny proportion will be in a guide such as you describe

in the first instance, your best bet is to go out with people who know their stuff

cheers

Chris

kingfu · #4 (**permalink**) 11-04-2010, 09:31 PM

Thanks for your suggestions, I'll look them up and compare. I haven't taken a spore print, didn't even know what one was until I just googled it.

Don't worry I have no intention of eating wild mushrooms, I'm far too chicken and I don't want to poison myself just yet! lol I was actually looking for plants and was just curious to what this little fella was.

Might get a few books out on fungi as it does seem quite an interesting subject.