Help identifying these please?

[emmceevee]

1. Found in a Beech woodland at the end of August this year, the cap is around 2cm across.


2. Also found in a Beech woodland growing at the base of the tree, about 4cm across.


3. This was found in an open area between to larger areas of Beech woodland, it had alot of weeds e.g. rosebay willowherb and other fungi including the sickener present nearby. The cap is about 4-5cm across.



Any help would be appreciated! Especially names, if they're common/rare etc.

Thank you!

[Iona F]

I'd love to help, but being less than confident at photo identification, I'm unlikely to be able to... The last one I'd put money on being lactarius, but with so little information about any of them I'd be surprised if even the most experienced, well respected mycologists (of which there are many here) would be able to help you! If you could give us more info via photographic evidence (gills, stipe, etc) and info as to where you found them, what they smelled like, whether they discoloured with bruising... You'd be an aweful lot more likely to get an ID! Next time perhaps!

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by emmceevee

1. Found in a Beech woodland at the end of August this year, the cap is around 2cm across.


2. Also found in a Beech woodland growing at the base of the tree, about 4cm across.


3. This was found in an open area between to larger areas of Beech woodland, it had alot of weeds e.g. rosebay willowherb and other fungi including the sickener present nearby. The cap is about 4-5cm across.



Any help would be appreciated! Especially names, if they're common/rare etc.

Thank you!

quite possibly all Lactarius as suggested above - though not all the same species

if with beech the second one could well be Lactarius subdulcis, and I'd be surprised if the last one wasn't Lactarius quietus - it has a very distinctive smell - was there oak around? (edit yes I see from the leaves there was!!)

but as Iona has said you really must try and give more info in the future . . .

Chris

[Lancashire Lad]

The third one does have the general look of Lactarius blennius or Lactarius quietus - but would have more chance of being definite with gill shot / evidence of milk etc. etc.

Not enough info for me to have a stab at the other two.

Have a read of this sticky from the forum index page:-

Help us to help you identify fungi

Regards,
Mike.

[emmceevee]

Originally Posted by Iona F

I'd love to help, but being less than confident at photo identification, I'm unlikely to be able to... The last one I'd put money on being lactarius, but with so little information about any of them I'd be surprised if even the most experienced, well respected mycologists (of which there are many here) would be able to help you! If you could give us more info via photographic evidence (gills, stipe, etc) and info as to where you found them, what they smelled like, whether they discoloured with bruising... You'd be an aweful lot more likely to get an ID! Next time perhaps!

They didn't appear discoloured or bruised. I'm new to any sort of fungi identification and wouldn't have thought to smell them or anything to be honest :S
Other than the location info I stated, all that I could add really that it was in Northern Ireland in a conservation area of a forest park comprised entirely of beech.
No. 3 was found in a within this - the only trees present here were 1 beech and 1 oak. Light penetration was excellent, very little shade and the area was mainly covered with weeds, mosses and leaf litter.