can anyone help me identify these fungi? Thank you

sallyh · #1 (**permalink**) 30-08-2011, 08:23 PM

Hi, I found a variety of fungi in some ancient woodland in west somerset on 27th and 28th August 2011. Can anyone confirm what they are please? Thank you.

Chris Yeates · #2 (**permalink**) 30-08-2011, 08:56 PM

hi and welcome to WAB

'confirm' usually implies a suggested name . . . .

I see you have done this for Laccaria amethystina - which is correct

top middle is common earthball Scleroderma citrinum
top right is a Coprinellus ink-cap (I always check the spores under a microscope)
bottom left is a Russula - I don't do Russulas I'm afraid
bottom middle looks very like one of the mil-caps Lactarius blennius

it might help you to read: Help us to help you identify fungi

cheers

Chris

fairplay · #3 (**permalink**) 30-08-2011, 10:05 PM

Hello Sally,

If I knew photo 1 was growing on Oak or Sweet Chestnut then I would say this MAY be Hymenochaete rubiginosa but on the other hand this looks to be too robust.

Photo 4 is a Russula species, but there are many with a yellow cap, so that's as far as you will get with this.

And Photo 5 is Lactarius blennius as Chris says, which grows with Beech, and I even think that is the covering of a Beech bud lying on the cap for confirmation.

Neil.

sallyh · #4 (**permalink**) 31-08-2011, 08:47 AM

Thank you both! I've just joined WAB and it is quite a site to navigate at first, so thanks for the tips too.......When I took these pics. I didn't consider recording any information about them, but I will do in future so that there is more to help identify them correctly. With the bracket fungus on the tree stump it would have been very difficult to say what the tree had been as there was nothing of it left except a rotting stump. Surrounding trees were of several varieties too, so nothing to give away what it might have been. All best wishes, Sally