Help with identifying funghi seen at Virginia Water please

MrsBagpuss · #1 (**permalink**) 19-10-2010, 10:01 PM

Hi everyone, I saw these at the weekend and it would be great to know what type of funghi they are. Many thanks for any assistance

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Chris Yeates · #2 (**permalink**) 20-10-2010, 12:07 AM

hello and welcome to WAB Mrs B

from top to bottom your fungi are:

Amanita rubescens - the blusher

Boletus chrysenteron (or one of its lookalikes)

Boletus edulis - cep / porcini

Helvella crispa

Amanita muscaria - fly agaric (be honest - you knew this one!

)

probably Coprinellus micaceus - glistening ink-cap; but there are similar species and you do really need to check the spores to be 100% sure - I always do

hope that helps

Chris

cybershot · #3 (**permalink**) 20-10-2010, 05:26 AM

cybershot · #4 (**permalink**) 20-10-2010, 05:35 AM

Hello and welcome from me too nice selection there, id'd kindly by Chris (Professor Yaffle) Yeates

, and well and neatly presented by you.

I Had lunch at The Rose and Olive Branch, VW very recently and down the lane from back of thier car park you will find fallen Elm with Rhodotus palmatus - Wrinkled Peach (sorry Chris

) on it in relative abundance. Well worth the effort to seek out and find this very beautifuil and uncommon species.

Good luck

David

MrsBagpuss · #5 (**permalink**) 20-10-2010, 11:35 AM

Oooh thanks very much for the replies everyone. Those identifications are a great help Chris. I wasn't sure if that one was Fly agaric as all the others I saw were much redder looking and that one was kinda orangy/brown.

Thanks for the tip on the Wrinkled Peach David - now I want to go back and look for them too!

Chris Yeates · #6 (**permalink**) 20-10-2010, 05:29 PM

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Originally Posted by cybershot

id'd kindly by Chris (Professor Yaffle) Yeates

, and well and neatly presented by you
David

I take that as a compliment - I loved that series . . . . "we will fix it, we will stitch it, we will make it new, new, new" . . . . ah! more innocent times

C

cybershot · #7 (**permalink**) 20-10-2010, 05:38 PM

You are more than welcome and these are they; very poor images taken on my cell phone 'cos on that rare occasion somebody had unknowingly to me surgically removed my Cano 40D frommy grasp.

For some really lovely images search the WAB galleries using the appropriate limiters, especially narrowing it down to the Martin Wison galleywhere there is an amazing studyof this species.

BTW the pub, The rose and Olive Branch, the only one of that name in the land is well worth a visit and I can't reccommend it too highly; a truly country pub oasis of an experience inmy books!

Good luck (are you local to VW?)

David

cybershot · #8 (**permalink**) 20-10-2010, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Chris Yeates

I take that as a compliment - I loved that series . . . . "we will fix it, we will stitch it, we will make it new, new, new" . . . . ah! more innocent times

C

It was meant thus: Looks like you've got a new WAB tag then Chris

Cheers and best regards

David

cybershot · #9 (**permalink**) 20-10-2010, 05:50 PM

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Originally Posted by MrsBagpuss

Oooh thanks very much for the replies everyone. Those identifications are a great help Chris. I wasn't sure if that one was Fly agaric as all the others I saw were much redder looking and that one was kinda orangy/brown.

Thanks for the tip on the Wrinkled Peach David - now I want to go back and look for them too!

Amanita muscaria - Fly agaric can easily, with age and inclement weather, begin to look very dishevelled, pale and spotless, a shadow of its former self (there is a meditteranean cousin which is actually pale orange and smooth but someone else will have to tell you its name* which escapes my befuddled memory at the moment.

David

* just looked it up - Amanita caesarea - Caesar's Mushroom

MrsBagpuss · #10 (**permalink**) 20-10-2010, 10:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Chris Yeates

I take that as a compliment - I loved that series . . . . "we will fix it, we will stitch it, we will make it new, new, new" . . . . ah! more innocent times

You know it's funny I have a little bagpuss mouse that actually sings that song when you give it a squeeze....

Anyway, sadly I am not local to Virginia Water we took a trip there especially to see if we could find some cool funghi to take pictures of. I had no particular idea what I was looking for and when I found some I still didn't have much idea either! Still I'm all the more clued up now thanks to you guys

Perhaps I'll look closer to home for some more now (Herts).

Oh that reminds me how about these - I saw them at Ashridge Estate the year before last, would you be able to tell me what they are too please: