shaggy parasols?id please?

jeanette · #1 (**permalink**) 12-09-2010, 09:17 PM

i have found several rings/troops of these in a local copse,some are in excess of 10 - 11 inches.
pretty sure they are shaggy parasol,they go a red/brown colour when cut,have a hollow stipe,NO snakelike markings on stipe,some have a free ring,the larger they seem to get the less free they are,but the ring seems more double the larger the specimen.white spore print.
have found them forming in rings 12 - 15 ft across in dense woodland(however, a lack of conifers)

Naturenutz · #2 (**permalink**) 12-09-2010, 09:32 PM

wow they look great,nothing like my shaggy parasol identified tonight though

NickCantle · #3 (**permalink**) 12-09-2010, 09:35 PM

They certainly don't look like any Chlorophyllum rhacodes I've ever seen- especially going by that first image. I think you're looking at a different species here...

jeanette · #4 (**permalink**) 12-09-2010, 10:22 PM

i'm no expert,as you know,it took me two days to put a picture on.ANY ideas?

solus · #5 (**permalink**) 12-09-2010, 11:56 PM

Now you all know my ID skills are more or less zero but looking at the picture in the new Collins Guide of Macrolepiota konradii I see some similarities...? "Central disc on cap breaks up into a cogwheel or star-shaped pattern.... white collar-like double ring."

Just a thought. Could it be that?

Out of interest, whereabouts in the country are you Jeanette?

jeanette · #6 (**permalink**) 13-09-2010, 12:02 AM

crikey,i wish someone could see them at their best,they're amazing,especially when the sun shines through the woods at their placement.
Solus,will look up your informed choice,didn't come across it when searching for what i thought these were.

solus · #7 (**permalink**) 13-09-2010, 12:09 AM

More of a wild guess than an informed choice!

Best wait and see what the top bods think tomorrow (when they've stopped laughing at my playing "Snap!" with the latest field-guide.

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jeanette · #8 (**permalink**) 13-09-2010, 07:02 AM

forgot to say,i'm in bedfordshire

Deb London · #9 (**permalink**) 13-09-2010, 07:07 AM

Rogers Mushrooms - Macrolepiota procera Mushroom

Looks a lot like yours. Forms fairy rings.

NickCantle · #10 (**permalink**) 13-09-2010, 07:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Deb London

Rogers Mushrooms - Macrolepiota procera Mushroom

Looks a lot like yours. Forms fairy rings.

There are no snakeskin stipe markings on jeanette's specimens whereas M. procera has the markings as a key identification factor. Something doesn't add up to me for Shaggy Parasols, but I have no idea what

The cap cracking like that I think. I'm going to be watching this thread