Transparent toadstools ID help please

[Ukwildlifeo]

Originally Posted by pressld2

Wow! I am getting good! I even beat Nick to the ID. Roll on Clumber Park - you line 'em up and I'll sort 'em out!

Dave P.

Will that be before or after you step on them?

[SheffieldLass]

I would not have recognised them as Coprinopsis lagopus at all, and I've been seeing Coprinopsis lagopus here on a daily basis for the last 4 months or more on the many woodchip piles around here ....

So I just checked Ulje's Coprinus site and noticed the following, particularly the bit I've put in italics:

'Coprinus lagopus can be recognized by the terrestrial habitat, preferably to wood-chips or vegetable refuse, the dense, hairy fibrillose, whitish to silvery grey veil, the average spore length > 11 µm and average spore breadth > 6.7 µm, and the thin-walled veil with terminal elements up to c. 40 µm wide.
Close to Coprinus lagopus and exclusively growing in lawns, an aberrant form has been collected, characterized by very fragile basidiocarps that develop during the evening and night and quickly disappear the next morning, leaving only laying, silvery white stipes with collapsed caps and having somewhat larger (12-15 µm long) and very dark spores (coll. Uljé 1264 and 1268). '

So I think it is perhaps this one that is 'close to' Coprinopsis lagopus.

Cheers
Melanie

[pressld2]

Originally Posted by Ukwildlifeo

Will that be before or after you step on them?

Picky, picky! One little mishap with a Morchella semilebra and they never let you forget!

Originally Posted by SheffieldLass

So I think it is perhaps this one that is 'close to' Coprinopsis lagopus.

Note to self: no cake for Melanie at Clumber Park...



Dave P.