Any id help appreciated

[turntostone]

Hi,

I mainly photo wildflowers but now Autumns here am coming accross more
Fungi. I was wondering if any member cold help I.D those shown on the attached images. All wer taken this September at Cowley in Middlesex.

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Thanks for any help.

Gordon

[diggleken]

Hi Gordon, welcome to WAB!
First two are inkcaps, first perhaps Coprinus logopus/lagopides, then shaggy inkcap Coprinus comatus last looks like smoky bracket, Bjerkandera adusta.
Await the experts though!
Cheers
Ken

[Chris Yeates]

I think the top one is a Parasola - I can't see any evidence of a veil

Chris

[SheffieldLass]

The first I think is a Parasola (they were once included in Coprinus), and not Coprinopsis lagopus ... that one has quite copius fluffy veil as shown well on this link Ulje's Coprinus website Coprinus lagopus ((NL: Hazepootje, 026.42.0)). Yours is in perfect condition, just right for putting under the microscope .... well almost too pretty to disturb . They require microscopy to get to species level. Check out Ulje's website for the full range of Parasola, under subsection Glabri. Coprinus (Studies in Coprinus - keys to subsections and species in Coprinus). Lots of pretty pics as well as comprehensive info.

Melanie

Chris pipped me to the post ....

[diggleken]

Originally Posted by Chris Yeates

I think the top one is a Parasola - I can't see any evidence of a veil

Chris

we have had torrential rain............................
Cheers
Ken

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by diggleken

we have had torrential rain............................
Cheers
Ken

do you still have a hosepipe ban? when Melanie and I were over there a couple of weeks back it was - as they say round here - siling it down

Chris

[diggleken]

No we dont Chris - as soon as it was in place it started bucketing down............then it was lifted and it started to be sunny.
Glad you enjoyed our Lancashire side cotton friendly weather.
Did you do Dovestones then?
It was actually very dry a few days before your planned monday, maybe not the best conditions, anything of interest?
Cheers
Ken

[SheffieldLass]

Originally Posted by diggleken

No we dont Chris - as soon as it was in place it started bucketing down............then it was lifted and it started to be sunny.
Glad you enjoyed our Lancashire side cotton friendly weather.
Did you do Dovestones then?
It was actually very dry a few days before your planned monday, maybe not the best conditions, anything of interest?
Cheers
Ken

Hi Ken

We did a rather shortened circuit ... I'm not sure what Chris found, but I came across Cystoderma jasonis in the pine wood (not many records, most likely misrecorded these days as C amianthinum, well it was once considered merely a variety - but common in the spruce woodland near Scarborough at the moment). Also Coprinopsis laanii on the cut end of a felled pine. No photos of either as it was too wet to risk getting my camera out. We wisely ignored the interesting Entoloma and only gathered Entoloma conferendum It meant little time was wasted when it came to the microscope work (well, E sericellum was also there, to be fair.) Galerina badipes was there, close to pine - I've been finding that around here under pine/conifers too.

Pity you weren't able to join us and get wet through too

Cheers
Melanie

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by diggleken

Glad you enjoyed our Lancashire side cotton friendly weather.
Did you do Dovestones then?
. . . . anything of interest?
Cheers
Ken

it's not Lancashire you know that and I know that!

there was an interesting Cheilymenia on cattle dung I still need to pin down - might post something re that in due course; lots of Tremella foliacea (I bet you've seen that), also Pholiota flammans and Melanotus proteus - strictly M. horizontalis - on conifer wood

also a Hebeloma that turned out to be Inocybe sindonia

cheers

C