A few 'shrooms for ID please!

[Stefan]

So, I was out yesterday - 'cycling' but I am oh so easily distracted and stopped to look for mushrooms for a good hour not that I could tell what any of them are anyway - this will keep you busy for hours - sorry!

I will try to give details on habitat as much as I can.. I suspect a lot would have been on living trees but for the high winds we had a few nights ago that blew these trees down (I suspect) good habitat for some stag beetles though.

It's actually quite remote, lichens here are growing to an extent that I haven't seen before around here.. Maybe suggesting low pollution (?). The ground/path is relatively steep, 20% in some places (1 in 5) and the only people I have ever seen around this area are a few scouts from the camp next door and a couple horse riders. The ground is loose leaf debris and there were many moths in the decaying trees.

OK, so number 1 I don't think anyone will get as it is old and mouldy, however I will give it a shot as you guys I'm sure could tell me something about it!


Number 2 - No clue to be honest I had a wild stab in the dark with Creolophus cirrhatus but I am sure you put me in my place, as it doesn't really look like it :P Sorry for the rubbish photo quality


Number 3 - Again I am not at all sure but I would say Coriolus versicolor based just on the fact that I have seen it around in mid winter.


Number 4 - I really don't know, again sorry for the rubbish photos - if you forced me to guess I would say Incrustoporia semipileata, but prove me wrong, please!


Number 5 - Surprise surprise I don't know, and I couldn't even guess


Number 6- Last one you will be pleased to know, I thought it was an egg that had fallen out a tree when I first saw it, though it wasn't and I guess it is some kind of puffball/earthball thing.



Help would be very much apprectiated, sorry for the lack of decent quality photos, dissections and spore prints, I wasn't prepared, I'll go back tommorow to hopefully take some home (except for that manky, old one) and give some better photos and so forth I hope you can help me! Sorry for the massively long post as well!

Thanks
Stefan

[Lancashire Lad]

Hi Stefan,

Some of these are past their best so you might not get ID's on all of them.

No.1 - No chance for me (too far gone)

No.2 - My best guess would be a very old & dry Jelly Ear - Auricularia auricula-judae

No.3 - Could be an old Trametes versicolor.

No.4 - Haven't a clue.

No.5 - Birch Polypore - Piptoporus betulinus (But this one is suffering from a mould attack).

No.6 - Looks to be a Stinkhorn "egg" - Phallus impudicus.

Regards,
Mike.

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by Lancashire Lad

Hi Stefan,

Some of these are past their best so you might not get ID's on all of them.

No.1 - No chance for me (too far gone)

No.2 - My best guess would be a very old & dry Jelly Ear - Auricularia auricula-judae

No.3 - Could be an old Trametes versicolor.

No.4 - Haven't a clue.

No.5 - Birch Polypore - Piptoporus betulinus (But this one is suffering from a mould attack).

No.6 - Looks to be a Stinkhorn "egg" - Phallus impudicus.

Regards,
Mike.

the Piptoporus is being attacked by a Penicillium species

Chris