flaxton

Good call and thanks again for the heads-up on this.
David

Just looked up 'anastomoses' = cross-connections between lamellae, so another distinguishing feature attributed.

Thanks for resurrecting this one with such an interesting comment Mal. As seen in the Gallery comment Mykonik put this down as a coloured form of M. pura but I was never convinced and now checking with FoS ('very rare') I see much evidence, macrosopically speaking, to support what you have proposed. Guess I'll never know? But I remember the exact location in a pine section of Minley Wood so come the autumn I'll be on the look out again - shame I wasn't alert to it last year .

Cheers

David

What a shame. It seems a year for finding things way out of season though, last week I found a Lycoperdon utriforme. (I won't even mention green earthstars!)

That sounds like an interesting experiment - your wife must be a very understanding woman given the not too pleasant aroma, not to mention the flies! Keep us informed won't you - do a post on WATW, so we can share your findings, there is a chance I will miss it here.
I just presumed stinkhorns were to be found later in the year, so its news to me they are around - I will have to check my stinkhorn locations.
Shirley

Hi Mal, I have just seen you post "Spring Fungus" and you mention the edible Phallus at the egg stage. Is this the same as the Stinkhorn - Phallus impudicus, which is also edible at the egg stage? At the end of last summer and autumn I spent weeks watching these change stages (very interesting post on WAW plotting my wait - well I think so!), waiting for the chance of a good fresh specimen for photos - the first one I missed by hours (devistated) but went on to find many more. If they are the same, is it worth going back to last years haunts to find them again or will I have to look else where?
Or are we talking about different species?
Thanks, Shirley.

hello Mal. what was happening on the bolbitius thread. I viewed my subscribed threads this morning and found lots of replies on it. It seemed you and cybershot were debating on something. Now I can't find the thread - has it been deleted?

thanks

A nomen dubium maybe but the mycelium of A. bulbosa wildly spreads itself far and wide about Britain and the world!

Cheers

David

Thanks for your explanation, even if you said they tasted like chocolate I wouldn't dare eat any fungi I find, I am just too unsure of myself and its best to have a blanket rule and not eat anything I find. I presume they are found the same time as other morels then?
I have been on WAB longer than WATW, nip here from time to time to check the fungi A-Z and hopefully help someone out, but moth season its questions, questions question! I spend most my time on WATW now - both sites look the same on the outside but are very different. I can't say I have noticed you there though, but drop in again anytime - there aren't many of us but we are really nice and all pitch in where we can. Hopefully one of these days you will see a piccie of Mitrophora semilibera that I have found!
Thanks again!

Hello, I have just come across your great image of some Mitrophora semilibera, can you tell me where I would be likely to find something like this, not location but type of area. You say they are semifree morel, what does this actually mean?

Shirley