Unidentified various fungi growing in a silver birch/oak wood

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by flaxton

. . . until we have portable DNA machines no one can argue
Therefore I would say Mycena pura for this find.
Quick John freeze this thread before someone disagrees.

Mal

I suspect that the DNA may not prove conclusive here - we're clearly talking nuances, and opinions based on those nuances . . . .

Chris

[FungiJohn]

Originally Posted by flaxton

Quick John freeze this thread before someone disagrees.

Mal

Not yet, it sounds fun

John

[fairplay]

Mal, what is Mycena pura in its pureed form ? (unrecognisable - that's how I like it)

Neil.

[vole-woman]

Thanks. Anyone know what the middle right is, the spongiform one?

[Toonami]

Boletus Edulis or one of its close relations.

[vole-woman]

Thanks.

Why do some fungi have gills underneath and others these tiny spongy tubes? Is there an advantage to one or the other?

[ashgale]

Originally Posted by fairplay

When the BMS held their annual foray in Suffolk in 2009, I thought I would be able to 'clear up' all my misgivings re: pura v rosea, but listening to and watching all these very experienced people identifying these species in the field only led me to the conclusion there is considerable overlap/confusion between these two species still.
Regretfully, I was unable to get two experienced mycologists side by side saying this is or is not M.pura or M.rosea.

I think the theory is that M.pura is more of a deeper (mauve) colour, whilst M.rosea is an obvious 'pink', but several members were even calling 'pink' specimens M.pura which left me just as confused.

Neil.

there was a thread quite some time ago on the pura/rosea debate, in which it (if i remember correctly) it was stated that they could not be told apart by their macro characteristics or microscopic ones, and that it was only by their chemical composition that they coud be identified 100% correctly, one containging toxins while the other did not,
unfortunately i cant remember what the thread was, but i seem to remember either Mollisia or Ken Burgess could have been among the posters in that thread.

ashgale.