More help with ID please ..

[jaybie]

I stumbled across these a couple of feet from a hawthorn hedge bordering a field. Just the two of them about a foot apart on sandy soil. The spore print was darkish brown.



Looks like some bug had a nice meal.

Thanks, JohnB

[SheffieldLass]

It looks like a Stropharia/Psilocybe /Leratiomyces to me.

Giving three genera looks as if I'm very indecisive, but there are some species that appear under all those three names, they will keep moving them around the genera . I think there must be a further genus that has recently appeared too as the combined Psilocybe and Stropharia in Funga Nordica seem to be missing a few, and Leratiomyces isn't featured there as a genus, so they haven't turned up there .

It doesn't appear red enough for Stropharia aurantica though, and that is usually found on woodchip anyway. But there are some orangish ones that are found on wood debris.

Melanie

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by jaybie

I stumbled across these a couple of feet from a hawthorn hedge bordering a field. Just the two of them about a foot apart on sandy soil. The spore print was darkish brown.



Looks like some bug had a nice meal.

Thanks, JohnB

hi John

this is Stropharia coronilla - there is just about enough of the very distinctive ring - with its plicate ('pleated') upper surface in evidence in the left hand fruit-body in the middle photo to be sure of the ID

here is an example showing the complete ring:



I have even found this fungus at the edge of arable fields - but always with a hedge / woodland area not too far away

cheers

Chris

[jaybie]

Thanks Melanie - as if i'm not confused enough (not by your reply though )

Thanks Chris. Much easier to see the ring for comparison and to identify the features from the included image.

Regards, JohnB