Woodchip Fungi

[black]

I found these Fungi growing on fiungi at Moses Gate CP last weekend and also a few at Pennington Flash the previous week. I thought they may be Spring Fieldcap Agrocybe praecox. Can anyone give me any help. Thanks

[agrumpycow]

Possibly but could also be this:

Pluteus cervinus, the Fawn Pluteus?

Pluteus cervinus

Claire

[ecmyco]

Hi,

Why not a Psathyrella sp. ?

[agrumpycow]

Originally Posted by ecmyco

Hi,

Why not a Psathyrella sp. ?

I'm really new to all this but am really interested in it. Psathyrella and all the others mentioned look so similar I wonder how more experienced people can tell them apart so easily
At first glances and comparing with reference pics I've got I'm finding it hard to decide!

[thunder]

I seem to recall there was an article in British Wildlife mgazine quite recently about fungi on woodchips. It might help.

thunder

[Tiggrx]

You may also find this article useful.

Woodchip fungi

[black]

These woodchip fungi are difficult I kind of ruled out the psathyrella because their stalks seem very long, these Moses Gate fungi stalks were much shorter.
Thanks Tiggrx I had seen the "chezshaw" Woodchip fungi article on the web but I haven't seen the BBC wildlife article Thunder. If anyone has a copy could they scan it?
I found some other Woodchip fungi in St James Garden's, Liverpool last year that are in the Unidentified Gallery that I thought might be Agrocybe putaminum very similar to the photo in the "chezshaw" web article.

[Mish]

Hi Black!

I think they look like Psathyrella sp as they have white silky stems and they seem to have hygrophanous (changing color as they dry) caps. Did you get a spore print? Psathyrellas have a dark brown spore print wheras the spore prints of Agrocybe spp. are reported to be 'dull brown'. Maybe there is a difference?

From Mish

[Nick_in_Scotland]

These remind me of Tubaria species. They could be Tubaria furfuracea. Look for an ochre spore print (i.e. more yellow than brown).

[Wes]

Isn't it amazing that there is so much around us in nature that we would need to be walking encyclopedias, and thick ones at that, if we were just to be able to id all we see.