Identification needed

[Vdubbman]

Hi everyone, this is my first post so please forgive me if this is a common question. Can anyone identify a mushroom I found in our local woods today. The wood is called Collingbourne Wood, located in Hampshire and is primarily a monoculture of plantation Beech. The mushroom has a cream and light brown cap that is mostly flat with a slight curl down at the edge. The surface is smooth not scaley and the fading from cream to brown is from the outer edge to the centre. The stalk is white and bulbous towards the base, where it enters the ground. It is dry to touch, quite delicate, smells like a typical mushroom and there are signs on mushrooms around that the local wildlife like to nibble them, but not profusely, which suggests to me they are not that tasty, but I don't have a mammal's palate.... The gills are white, tight and delicate and also dry. It grows out of the leaf litter and top soil, not from trees or other fallen/ rotten wood. It is found in groups. If you need any further info...

[Chris Yeates]

hi and welcome to WAB

sadly, as you will see from other threads it can be difficult enough to identify something from a photograph - from a written description, no matter how detailed, it is proportionately even more difficult

is there any chance of a photo or three?

cheers

Chris

providing you have images downloaded to your computer this page is the place to upload them http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/ar...ploadphoto.php

[Vdubbman]

Hi Chris, Yes I do have images. I have uploaded them onto the unidentified fungi section. I am Vdubbman.

[BROCSMAN]

They look like Cloud Caps to me. Clitocybe nebularis.

[Vdubbman]

Hi Chris, thanks very much for the reply. Its good to put a name to them. Good site I shall return. I am teaching my daughter (3.5yrs) about everything in the woods. Learning about what fungi are etc is a good place to start.
Kind regards