A good old ID thread

[AHPP]

Growing on a chestnut stump on my driveway.

 

[Husqvarna King]

Sulphur tuft?

[daltontrees]

Looks like sulphur tuft but the gills are 'free', for sulphur tuft they should be 'adnate'. I haven't got any better suggestion, though.

Edited August 17, 2023 by daltontrees

[Husqvarna King]

I’ve seen them with free gills…. At least I thought they were sulphur tuft

[Paul in the woods]

Have the gills been pulled free when the piece of cap was torn off?

 

[AHPP]

Sulphur tuft looks right. Just as well I forgot to put them in dinner. Will pick one carefully tomorrow and get a shot of the gills. If they're free, what else might they be?

[daltontrees]

11 hours ago, Paul in the woods said:

Have the gills been pulled free when the piece of cap was torn off?

 

I wondered about that but the one on the right in the lower picture shows free gills even though the top has not been pulled off.

[daltontrees]

13 hours ago, Husqvarna King said:

I’ve seen them with free gills…. At least I thought they were sulphur tuft

I'm just going by what I have read. 2 books and 2 reliable websites. All saying adnate.

[daltontrees]

Update: I have just discovered ther is such a thing (to add to my primitive list of gill attachment types) as "seceding" which is "Gills appear torn away or hanging, but where attached at some point in time. Evidence of the attachment may remain on the stipe, usually occurs in older specimens."

Since the specimens appear in most ways to look like or be in the habitat of sulphur tuft, this may be an indication tha they are sulphur tuft and that the gills have been adnexed but have come detached and/or are easily detached when the cap is torn off.

[daltontrees]

gill attachment.pdf