More Fungi to be ID'd please

[Joshud]

Hello,

This is my second post needing help to get some IDs as the more I clear/explore the land I recently got, the more interesting fungi I find!

Any help would be most helpful!

So this first one was found amounst stones of all things and I actually mistook it for a stone! It's supprisingly heavy and there's a whole bunch of them! (also the green dots are not part of it - they're from my woodtreatment / paint)




This one I saw from miles away,as there were loads in the middle of a field. It looks like a normal mushroom from the shops but it's rather large nearly 15cm diamiter.



This next one was found on moss, under an oak tree and under a stone but then as i looked further down there was some even more under a silver birch.



This final one - I'm told - is a Magic mushroom. It is rather pretty and was found right next to the ones above.



any help would be most appreciated!

Thanks,

Joshua

[waynehicks1]

Hi Joshua

Your first fungus looks like Daldina concentrica, which normally grows in clusters on fallen trees, branches etc.

Your second photo lacks deatail and is hard to ID.

Your third picture looks like either a Lactarius species or possibly Paxillus involutus/Brown Rollrim.

Photo four is an Amanaita muscaria/Fly Agaric, looking a little sorry for itself.

I hope this helps you.

Wayne

[flaxton]

Can you cut the first on in half and post a picture.

[Joshud]

Originally Posted by flaxton

Can you cut the first on in half and post a picture.

Of course!

Here:



the black area in the middle is solid, almost like a hard chocolate moose (if that description makes ANY sense!)

Also I thought I would re-take a photo of the 3rd

[FungiJohn]

Hi Joshud and welcome to WAB

Please see:

Is my fungus edible or psychotic requests

to understand why I edited your last post

John

[fairplay]

Hello Joshud,

The first specimen you illustrate seems to me it could be a subterranean fungus somehow brought to the surface (but a "whole bunch of them") ?
I think it safe to rule out Daldinia spp. (Cramp Balls) as these are 'surprisingly light' and grow attached to wood or burnt wood.
Your description of "surprisingly heavy" really adds to the mystery, unless someone else can pick up on this.
The only other thing I can think of are Earth Balls.

Your second fungus - if you say there were 'loads of them in a field, were like mushrooms and large', then this has to be Volvariella gloiocephala. It has the common name Stubble Field Mushroom - so were they in a field which had been recently harvested ? It's a very poor specimen and photo, so I think I deserve a pat on the back if I got this one right.

Wayne mate, you could be right ! (with Paxillus involutus):congratulation s:

That's only a 'could be' though as again, these are awful specimens, and we desperately need an underview to be more sure.

Finally we have the classic Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria)
It's magical properties are well known - you stand in a circle of them and wish you had a million pounds.

Neil.

EDIT: I see you have added some new shots.
I think your first is an Earth ball but it lacks detail so I will not make a wild guess.
The other shot confirms for me that you do have Paxillus involutus, but old, dry specimens.

[Joshud]

Hi John,

Thank you for drawing that to my attention. I apologise for posting something that needed to be moderated.

J

[Joshud]

Originally Posted by fairplay

That's only a 'could be' though as again, these are awful specimens, and we desperately need an underview to be more sure.

See my second post :-)

Finally we have the classic Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria)
It's magical properties are well known - you stand in a circle of them and wish you had a million pounds.

Not sure what that means, but thank you for your identification.

J

[fairplay]

Originally Posted by Joshud

See my second post :-)



Not sure what that means, but thank you for your identification.

J

As you now know, we cannot discuss 'magical properties' of fungi, so I was being a bit flippant - it is what one does with a fairy ring of Marasmius oreades (but it should work just as well with a ring of Fly Agaric)

Neil.

[waynehicks1]

Now you have shown us the first fungus, cut in half, it does have an Earthball look to it. I've been cutting many of these open recently and that black middle looks extremely familiar

Regards

Wayne