Pholiota?

[rachelkellett]

Can anyone tell me if this is Pholiota?
It's growing on a goat willow, here in Suffolk.

Thanks

Rachel

[flaxton]

Hi Rachel welcome to WAB.
A link to your photos might have helped


I think it is an Armillaria a Honey Fungus rather than a Pholiota.

Mal

[Ditiola]

Hi Rachel

A spore print will soon distinguish between Pholiota and Armillaria:
Pholiota = brown spores and Armillaria = White spores


Peter

[hamadryad]

Looks like armillaria mellea to me.

[fairplay]

Hi Rachael,

Oh, I see, I get the message, just because I forgot to tell you what those 3 photos in your Gallery under the heading of 06 are, you have decided to join WAB and ask here. I know when I'm not wanted.

Deepest Apologies Dearest Rachael, when I said "... the others, I'm not too sure of, but they could be Clitocybe geotropa too" - that could have given the impression I was referring to the 3 photos marked '06' but in fact I had forgotten all about these.

I did enlarge them and imediately came to the conclusion they were Honey Fungus, but you sent me so many photos with all different titles from 01 - 0? (Arghhh - just noticed you have updated them all !) that when replying I simply forgot to say what those 3 Honey Fungus shots were - so now you know.

Getting back to your own 2012 HHP Fungi Gallery, I would rather you place the word 'Possibly' before Clitocybe geotropa and Wood Blewit because the specimens were so old and washed out, it was difficult to be certain, and it is always possible somebody else could view your Gallery and say "NO WAY, these are not C. geotropa" and that is my reputation in tatters.

However, check the list I sent you for that day, and if I included Clitocybe geotropa, that will be because I saw them first hand (and I'm sure I did) and if those photos you sent me were taken there and then, then this is what they are.

Cheery Bye,

Neil.