Some from the weekend - A. rubescens, C. cibarius

[Bill S]

Hi all

Found a few nice specimens for photographing over the weekend, I think the first is Amanita rubescens and the second is Cantharellus cibarius (spore print looks sandy coloured but it's not a very dense print and for some reason shows up better on black card than on white card). But the third I'm not so sure on, can anyone shed any light please. My first thought was A rubescens but I couldn't see any veil remnants on the stem.

Many thanks in advance

Bill

[Chris Yeates]

hi

clearly no problems with the first two . . . .

bottom one an Amanita section Amanitopsis jobbie - I would suggest Amanita ceciliae (= Amanita inaurata) - but there are others who know this genus better than I do

cheers

Chris

[SheffieldLass]

So how can one safely tell the difference between Cantharellus cibarius and Hygrophoropsis aurantica?

Melanie

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by SheffieldLass

So how can one safely tell the difference between Cantharellus cibarius and Hygrophoropsis aurantica?

Melanie

hi Melanie

given more than a cursory look they are worlds apart - Cantharellus cibarius doesn't have true gills, they are more like pronounced ridges; Cantharellus is a member (natch!) of the Cantherallales - it's not an agaric - it's related to club fungi in the genus Clavulina and resupinates like Botryobasidium (who said fungal taxonomy should be based on what a fungus actually looks like!)

Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca has far more crowded gills (and they are definitely true gills - even though the fungus is actually a bolete - again not a true agaric) and, main point, those gills branch, and often branch again, in a regular fashion - one gill diverging into two and so on

once you have your eye in you won't get confused

best

Chris

[Bill S]

Originally Posted by SheffieldLass

So how can one safely tell the difference between Cantharellus cibarius and Hygrophoropsis aurantica?

Melanie

Thanks all.

Here's a pic of what I assume is Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca I took in October last year. It's far more mushroomy (technical term ), and regular with much stronger defined gills than in the Cantharellus.



Bill