Help with fungus ID - various species

[HowW]

Can anyone offer a bit of advice on identifying / confirming the following species please:

1) Small buff-coloured mushrooms (cap = 1 to 3cm) growing on grass in fairy-ring style. Initially I thought they were fairy ring champignon but looking at my book the gills don't look right - these gills attach to and slightly run down the stem (which they're not meant to if true fairy ring champs.)



2) Large white mushroom (cap = around 15cm across) growing in mixed woodland. Think it could be a horse mushroom (agaricus arvensis). Any thoughts?
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3) Very large white funnel shaped mushrooms, with wavy edge to cap and gills running down the stem. Growing near edge of mixed woodland. Looks like giant funnel (leucopaxillus giganteus) but my book says the cap of this species is only 5 - 15cm across. Some of the fungi pictured must have been at least 20cm across.

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4) Medium sized orangey-brown mushrooms (cap around 8 - 10cm across), with pores rather than gills, found in mixed woodland. Some sort of bolete (either suede or bovine?). But not sure if these two photos are of the same species?

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Any suggestions?

Thanks
H

[Chris Yeates]

hi

have you done a spore print of the top one? if white could be in the area of Clitocybe rivulosa / dealbata . . . . mistake these for Marasmius oreades and you could be giving extra work to the coroner!

second one Agaricus species

I suspect both the last two are Suillus grevillei

this post appears to be veering a little towards a request re edibility (based on what the fungi are/are hoped to be) . . . . please read Is my fungus edible or psychotic requests

please don't take this the wrong way (and I am keen to encourage anyone undertaking the study of fungi in Yorkshire - I assume that's the Derwent behind you?), but WAB is not an identification service simply for people wanting to collect for the table - if I am mistaken here forgive me, but FungiJohn and other mods are watching the website for such requests

Chris

[SheffieldLass]

Just noticed that Chris has replied, and I agree with his suggestions, and I too had a big worry about a possible edibility reason for posting. Clitocybe dealbata /rivulosa are deadly.

You ask for advice. My advice is ... join a local fungi group . Seriously.

My first interest in fungi was partly driven by an interest in eating them. I enrolled on a fungi identification course. I very quickly learnt that you have to really know your fungi otherwise you are putting yourself at very big risk. I only collect and eat the occasional cep these days, but am fascinated by fungi instead, love the challenge of identifying them. I suspect that the recent glut of 'food for free' tv programs is going to spawn a rise in serious fungi poisonings.

Melanie

[HowW]

Thanks for the responses.

Re Chris's concerns - I understand your point, but I do have a genuine, long held and broad ranging interest in nature, the environment and conservation. Fungi are just one element of that and I am keen to learn more - I have to admit that I have never really learnt much about fungi before but seem to have got hooked!

Just to prove that I'm not only interested in fungi for the table (not that there's anything wrong with that!) I've attached a few more pictures from my recent foray (and which I did n't have time to upload last night)! Any suggestions?

Stagshorn (not sure whether this is calocera viscosa or c. cornea?)


No idea!



No idea, again (2 photos of same fungus)!
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Thanks
H

[flaxton]

Howard
Noticing you were from just up the road from me I looked at one of your previous post and realised no one had come up with suggestions for your second batch.
The first looks more likelly to be C cornea to me, the second might be a Postia of some sort and the final one is a Lactarius probably blennius.

Mal

[HowW]

Hi Mal

Thanks for responding - it's great that even posts that have been on for a while can still generate replies!

Can you recommend a local fungus group, as suggested by SheffieldLass?

Cheers
Howard

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by HowW

. . .

Can you recommend a local fungus group, as suggested by SheffieldLass?

Cheers
Howard

at the risk of jumping in, Melanie goes to meetings of the Scarborough Field Naturalists' Society - they have a good tradition of mycological work, and that area is not a million miles away from you; Mal may know of others; later in the year I'll be organising a weekend YNU Autumn Foray in Huddersfield (similar to last year's which went pretty well, see: joint YNU/MYFG/WAB autumn foray) - I'll keep you posted

coming up much sooner the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union is organising a 3-day Bioblitz at Scarborough in early June, which will be an opportunity to learn more about all manner of groups of plants and animals large and small (and indeed fungi - I'm intending to be there for most if not all of it - I'm keen to do some driftwood collecting in the hope of adding some marine fungi to the Yorkshire List - they often have really cool spores, see: ‚¨‚à‚µ‚ë‚¢ƒJƒr‚̐¢ŠE . . . . who could not like a marine fungus called Torpedospora)

details at: Scarborough Bioblitz | Yorkshire Naturalists' Union

cheers

Chris