Help with fungal sporocarp ID

sluggybear · #1 (**permalink**) 10-11-2011, 03:23 PM

Hello everyone,
Was wondering if anyone could help me ID a "mushroom".
It was found growing beneath ferns, with quite an amount of detritous on the floor, and in 10m or so of deciduous trees poss beech. Had a shiny/ slimy cap 5cm at max (adult) juvenile caps are more convex and mature caps flatter one with a nipple, as can be seen. Stems are 5-8cm in length approx. Gills were yellow/ slightly paler than the caps. Not really sure what it could be because of similarities/overlaps.
Have a few ideas, poss Collybia butyracea, Laccaria proxima, Calerina mutabilis or Oudemansiella radiata.
Any help would be greatly received.

Thanks
Slug

Ken Burgess · #2 (**permalink**) 10-11-2011, 04:24 PM

This is Gymnopus peronatus (Collybia peronata). It often has quite yellowish gills and if you look closely you can see that the stem is finely hairy and it would have been quite woolly at the base if you had picked one.

Ken

sluggybear · #3 (**permalink**) 10-11-2011, 06:20 PM

Thanks very much =] Completely overlooked those little beasties, there were a load of mycelium around the bottom of the stem which I had completely overlooked and forgotten to mention!

Cheers
Sluggy