Fung ID please

[scottythepinetree]

Found at the base of a Poplar. Anyone know what these wee fellas are?

[jfc]

More and better photos needed for me. Close up of single stalk, possibly cut in half. Shots from the side and closer in.

[scottythepinetree]

49 minutes ago, jfc said:

More and better photos needed for me. Close up of single stalk, possibly cut in half. Shots from the side and closer in.

This any help?

[jfc]

I hoped you wouldn't have any more pics and I could leave it at that, darn it!

Look like fairy inkcaps, Coprinellus disseminatus.
I thought they were inkcaps but then used the second image to search Google lens (very good app for id of plants etc). It had ink caps as first choice, then look up coprinellus on the Tma fungi app and found other photos of fairy inkcaps to confirm.

They are not known to damage trees and cause problems they are saprotrophic living on already dead wood. A root may have died and they are decaying that.

Anyway that's my opinion but I'm no expert.

[daltontrees]

I think you are right, but I don't agree about Google Lens, it is pretty hit or miss when I try it. It's pretty rubbish on fingi, anyway, and occasiolanly right about plants.

[scottythepinetree]

On 27/10/2021 at 19:34, jfc said:

I hoped you wouldn't have any more pics and I could leave it at that, darn it!

Look like fairy inkcaps, Coprinellus disseminatus.
I thought they were inkcaps but then used the second image to search Google lens (very good app for id of plants etc). It had ink caps as first choice, then look up coprinellus on the Tma fungi app and found other photos of fairy inkcaps to confirm.

They are not known to damage trees and cause problems they are saprotrophic living on already dead wood. A root may have died and they are decaying that.

Anyway that's my opinion but I'm no expert.

Looks pretty close on Google. Thanks for the reply.