Not sure what my fungi's are.

[birderbryan]

I would welcome confirmation of what species my fungi's are. I think one of them may be sulphar Tuft, but not sure. And I dont have a clue with the other one with the dark brown cap. Any help would be most welcome, thanks.

[Ditiola]

Hi
The first thing you need to do is make a spore print. I don't no which reference book you are using but many are divided into groups that have specific spore colours. I think your first specimen will have pinkish spores, if so it can not be a Sulphur tuft as this has brown spores. I don not think the second one is Sulphur Tuft either. Sulphur tuft has sulphur coloured gills, but your phot does not show the gills. Did you check the gill colour?

You really need to start looking at the fungi in detail. If WAB people just give you a name you will not learn very much.

Peter

[Lancashire Lad]

Hi Birderbryan,

I think that the single fruitbody could be a young Pluteus cervinus - (Deer Shield). - I've been fooled very recently by the variability of these, but your photo looks very similar to some immature & not yet flattened out fruitbodies that I've recently seen. - If it was a P.cervinus, it should be growing on wood, rather than from soil. - Was there a log/branch buried under the moss?

The second photo looks like it might well be Kuehneromyces mutabilis - (Sheathed Woodtuft). - (Looks to be growing on a moss covered log or stump?). The stipe is visible on one of the fruitbodies towards lower right of photo, and can be seen to be dark below, and lighter above the ring area.

Regards,
Mike.

[diggleken]

I agree with Mike, 2nd looks strongly like Kuehneromyces mutabilis.
I think the other inference from Peter (apologies for paraphrasing) is you should try to present as much info as poss for ID, just a simple pic is not too easy or definitive usually - and Peter's point is right that you will learn more by doing so than just finding out the name.
Takes a long time though...........................
The m word (microscopy) and so on will inevitably rear up!
Good luck.
Cheers
Ken

[birderbryan]

Thanks Peter, Mike and Ken for your great help and advice, much appreciated.
Bryan.