Help - mushroom id's

ice_cream_genius · #1 (**permalink**) 09-10-2010, 05:19 PM

We've recently moved house, and some mushrooms have sprung up in our garden. We'd like to start to learn about the different types of mushrooms. Can anyone identify these please and tell me whether they are edible - I suspect not!
The two large ones sprung up beneath our horse chestnut tree, the underneath appears to be honeycombed.

The other mushrooms are in quite a large group in a more open area of long grass, all similar shapes but variety of colours from beige to brown.
Please can you help identify any of them? Thanks.

Chris Yeates · #2 (**permalink**) 09-10-2010, 05:27 PM

hi and welcome to WAB

but - please read this: Is my fungus edible or psychotic requests and perhaps edit your question . . . . .

thanks

Chris

ice_cream_genius · #3 (**permalink**) 09-10-2010, 07:05 PM

Ah thank you will try and figure out how to edit it!

ice_cream_genius · #4 (**permalink**) 09-10-2010, 07:11 PM

Oops looks like I am too late to edit my post. Perhaps an admin could remove my question about edibility! We would like to identify the mushrooms that we have found in our garden though, any ideas would be welcome. Thanks.

Chris Yeates · #5 (**permalink**) 09-10-2010, 08:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ice_cream_genius

Oops looks like I am too late to edit my post. Perhaps an admin could remove my question about edibility! We would like to identify the mushrooms that we have found in our garden though, any ideas would be welcome. Thanks.

fair do's

I suspect the bolete could be Boletus porosporus (the key feature - that the spores have a pore surprisingly enough! - can clearly not be checked

)

the troop of little brown jobs is a Psathyrella species - a rather difficult group, even when you have the literature and a microscope to hand

hope that helps a bit

cheers

Chris

ice_cream_genius · #6 (**permalink**) 09-10-2010, 08:46 PM

Thank you for the idents - very useful. Obviously I'm a complete newbie and have much to learn, from pores to spore prints!

Hoping to be a fast learner though now we're out in the country, and keep our eyes peeled. Any recommendations on good books/other founts of mushroomy knowledge would be appreciated...