2 Fungi for ID

[htcdude]

Can someone help me out with these please:

1


2


3 - although I think this might be the same as 2. They were on the same tree.


Thanks,

Nige

[ashgale]

Hi,
no 1 i think, is Coprinus comatus (or whatever the current name is now)

and no2 is i think, a young version of no3 which is Piptoporus betulinus-Birch polypore

ashgale.

[gobbiner]

Originally Posted by ashgale

Hi,
no 1 i think, is Coprinus comatus (or whatever the current name is now)


ashgale.

Shaggy Inkcap hopefully

[htcdude]

Many thanks for that ashgale!

Another 2 I've not seen before

Nige

[ashgale]

Originally Posted by htcdude

Many thanks for that ashgale!

Another 2 I've not seen before

Nige

Hi Nigel,
plenty of piptoporus around here ,
but although they were plentiful last year, have yet to find the Coprinus this year, they are quite a sight when you come across a large group of them

ashgale.

[htcdude]

Well if you're round this way at all I saw this one at Ruislip Woods/Lido, Middlesex.

I say they're 2 new ones for me, they're only the 11th and 12th fungi I've had ID'd So my list is pretty small, but it'll gradually grow no doubt

Nige

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by ashgale

. . . . Coprinus comatus (or whatever the current name is now) . . . . .

it's still Coprinus comatus and that's kind of the point; it should be clear to even a beginner that this fungus doesn't have a lot in common macroscopically with say "Coprinus plicatilis" or "Coprinus heptemerus"

when mycologists started looking at the DNA these macroscopic differences were backed up; Coprinus comatus - being the type species of the genus Coprinus stayed where it was - new names had to be found for the non-congeneric fungi formerly included in what was essentially a dustbin genus - hence the erection of Coprinopsis, Coprinellus and Parasola

indeed so different are these last three from Coprinus comatus that they are no longer placed in the family Coprinaceae, but in the Psathyrellaceae

Chris