a few more photos for confirmation and ID please!

[lipase]

Alreet?

I have a collection of photos of probably between 50 and 80 different fungi that I've gone out and found and may need a bit of help with if you are all willing! I've got to start somewhere so here's six to get started with:

1. I have no idea what this one could be



2. Maybe some sort of ink cap?



3. Marasmius oreades?




4. A common puffball? It seems very smooth compared to the common puffballs I found last year elsewhere.



5. Common puffballs again? These seem more spiny than the common puffballs I found last year...!



6. My first guess was Tubaria furfuracea but once again I really don't know!



Cheers,

Jack

[Chris Yeates]

hi Jack

70 or so more?

number 1 is straightforward - Paxillus involutus

number 2 looks rather like a Psathyrella - often extremely difficult, even with the literature and a microscope

number 2 looks rather like a Hebeloma - often extremely difficult, even with the literature and a microscope (where have I heard that before?) - really not sure why you would think Marasmius oreades . . . .

number 4 is, I think Lycoperdon perlatum, agreed

number 5 - not sure

and

number 6 - not a lot to go on, really

I shall post details of the YNU foray very shortly - you would be very welcome

cheers

Chris

[lipase]

Cheers Chris,

Can I ask you what other puffballs number 5 could be and what would be needed to narrow down number 6?

As for the YNU foray; I emailed Alan Braddock last week and was told details of where and when and how much etc, check me out being all proactive and xexexexe!

Jack

[lipase]

I'm beginning to see more similarities between number 4 and Lycoperdon excipuliforme as opposed to Lycoperdon perlatum... The spiny and granular warts and the lack of a reticulate pattern left in the area where the warts have been shed. Also the fact that it was growing on it's own (or atleast 3 meters from the other puffballs (number 5)). Am I very wrong here? It feels wrong contradicting the opinion of an expert and it will most likely end up with me looking even more ignorant because of it! But I have to question this just to be sure for myself!

Here's another photo just incase this helps.



Cheers,

Jack

[lipase]

I hope no-one minds if I bump this thread...