Fungus Found on Sand Dunes ID please

alindsay · #1 (**permalink**) 03-10-2011, 07:43 PM

From an earlier post, I think the 1st photo must be a Wax Cap and the second is a kind of puffball (only about 3cm diameter), but confirmation would be good and help on identifying the small fungi in the third photo please...

Thanks in advance

SheffieldLass · #2 (**permalink**) 03-10-2011, 08:13 PM

#1 Hygrocybe pratensis
#3 looks like Marasmius oreades

Melanie

Ditiola · #3 (**permalink**) 03-10-2011, 08:33 PM

Hi

Melanie

I think you have swapped the 1 & 3 the other way round, It should be:

1 = Marasmius oreades
3 = Hygrocybe pratensis

just to save any confussion

SheffieldLass · #4 (**permalink**) 03-10-2011, 08:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ditiola

Hi

Melanie

I think you have swapped the 1 & 3 the other way round, It should be:

1 = Marasmius oreades
3 = Hygrocybe pratensis

just to save any confussion

No! I want to keep them the way I had them .... Though on second look the top might just be rather weathered and sun-beaten Marasmius oreades.

I was out on grassland on Saturday - it was very difficult to id stuff as they were looking so atypical because of the hot sun ... colours different, shapes distorted, normally viscid ones dry and cracking

Hygrocybe laeta, normally very easy to id looked more like small Gomphidius roseus, they'd turned very pink and dry, the gills had lost their characteristic jade tint and looked cool grey ...

Melanie

Lancashire Lad · #5 (**permalink**) 03-10-2011, 08:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ditiola

Hi

Melanie

I think you have swapped the 1 & 3 the other way round, It should be:

1 = Marasmius oreades
3 = Hygrocybe pratensis

just to save any confussion

But those in pic 3. don't have the decurrent gills of H.pratensis.

Regards,
Mike.

fairplay · #6 (**permalink**) 03-10-2011, 09:59 PM

And assuming No 1 is a Wax Cap, I think it is in no state to be able to put a name to it.

Neil.

Ditiola · #7 (**permalink**) 03-10-2011, 10:14 PM

Woop's

I think I will keep quite in the future

Peter

Lancashire Lad · #8 (**permalink**) 03-10-2011, 10:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ditiola

Woop's

I think I will keep quite in the future

Peter

You'll only need to start worrying when you make as many ID mistakes as me.

Regards,
Mike.

Ken Burgess · #9 (**permalink**) 04-10-2011, 09:10 AM

No. 3 is definitely Marasmius oreades and I would think that no. 1 is probably also this species. I don't think no. 1 is a Hygrocybe, in spite of the thick gills, but without a shot of the gill attachment it isn't possible to be certain.

Ken