Is this a Grisette ??

[Wood Wanderer]

Tonights puzzle for the fungi brain panel, have assumed it is an Amanita sp. but unable to find a good visual match, anyone care to enlighten me



photo taken in November in a mixed plantation of mainly pine but also birch and oak

[fairplay]

My immediate impression is this is a Leratiomyces (formerly Stropharia) species, but I'm now making a cup of coffee !

Neil.


Hmmm, perhaps not. So, maybe Tubaria or even a Psathyrella sp.

[Chris Yeates]

hi

I presume by that you mean tawny grisette . . . . . ; I think this could be a Psathyrella probably not the same one as this - Tawny Grisette - Amanita fulva...wrong I.D

but all the points I made there fit here as well . . . .

cheers

Chris

[Wood Wanderer]

Originally Posted by fairplay

My immediate impression is this is a Leratiomyces (formerly Stropharia) species, but I'm now making a cup of coffee !

Neil.


Hmmm, perhaps not. So, maybe Tubaria or even a Psathyrella sp.

Thanks for the ideas I will see where they lead, at least I was right to doubt my original grisette thoughts the stem markings and white edge to cap looked all wrong ....

John

[Wood Wanderer]

Originally Posted by Chris Yeates

hi

I presume by that you mean tawny grisette . . . . . ; I think this could be a Psathyrella probably not the same one as this - Tawny Grisette - Amanita fulva...wrong I.D

but all the points I made there fit here as well . . . .

cheers

Chris

Thanks Chris

all very helpful, have now read the old thread you kindly pointed me to, Psathyrella sp. looks a far better option to investigate

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by Wood Wanderer

Thanks Chris

all very helpful, have now read the old thread you kindly pointed me to, Psathyrella sp. looks a far better option to investigate

hi

I fully understand that you are looking at older images and that you can now see that with a bit more info from them you'd be in a better position to hazard an ID . . . .

it's fine to (carefully) uproot a toadstool such as this, take some shots of its stem base, its gills (or otherwise), take it home and make a spore print etc,

if you don't keep the (dried) material for future examination, then just hang it in the cleft of some branches on a bush in your garden or local park - it will still spread its spores (even more widely than in its original location) it's not like picking a rare wildflower - you are still being quite conservation-minded

Chris