Unidentified fungi 1

JennyS · #1 (**permalink**) 01-01-2011, 10:27 PM

Finally going through some fungi photo's from last year - help needed please!

1. June. In woodland, probably on Oak - not even sure it is a fungus

2. June. Small, in marshy ground

3. August. Coastal dunes

4. August. In mixed deciduous woodland, by the look of the leaves under Beech

5. August. Coniferous woodland - a Bolete?

flaxton · #2 (**permalink**) 01-01-2011, 10:45 PM

Jenny
The first is an oak apple caused by the Biorhiza pallida gall wasp.
The last is Boletus badius.

Mal

SheffieldLass · #3 (**permalink**) 01-01-2011, 11:57 PM

#2 looks like a Pholiotina/Conocybe
#3 possibly Psathyrella ammophila, which grows in bare sand/mobile sand dunes

Melanie

JennyS · #4 (**permalink**) 04-01-2011, 04:48 PM

Thank you Mal and Melanie, and sorry there wasn't more information with them

AlanS · #5 (**permalink**) 05-01-2011, 12:53 AM

Hi Jenny,

For no. 2, you should perhaps also consider Galerina jaapii - nice little Galerina with a ring and which occurs in the habitat shown.
A quick look at the cap cuticle (filamentous) would decide if it was a Galerina of course - cellular cuticle in Conocybe and allied genera. But I guess it is a bit late for this? G. jaapii has distinctive, boat-shaped, ornamented spores.

I agree no. 3 looks right for Psathyrella ammophila.

Alan

mollisia · #6 (**permalink**) 05-01-2011, 11:53 AM

Hello,

The 2nd is in my opinion not a Galerina, because the ring is too stable. I think Pholiotina.

For the the 3rd I think the gill colour and the cap colour and most of all the stipe (which doesn't lock "brittle") suites more Agrocybe arenicola (= A. pediades complex) then a Psathyrella.

No. 4 has somthing of a Leucopaxillus.

best regards,
Andreas

poschiavanus · #7 (**permalink**) 06-01-2011, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by flaxton

Jenny
The first is an oak apple caused by the Biorhiza pallida gall wasp.
The last is Boletus badius.

Mal

My first reaction was that 1. was Biorhiza pallida, but something about the jizz isn't quite right. Oak Apples are multi-locular so by mid-June I'd expect to see little larval chambers in cross-section. A good check would be to visit the same site this year, the gall wasps usually have high site fidelity.