Fungi photo competition- win hamas camera!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Not that I noticed but being new to this I didn't 'have a sniff'. They are dying off now, would they still smell?

 

Kev, gotta be honest, this ones a bit obscure for me, pop over to my buddies on WAB (wild about britain) and post this up in the fungal ident help section, theres some really good experts there that will give you genus if nothing else.

[Kev Stephenson]

Now posted on WAB

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Now posted on WAB

 

 

Sometimes, you just gotta put your hands up and say "I dunno":lol:

 

sorry kev, but certain youll get a good ident of those guys and girls:thumbup1:

[Kev Stephenson]

but does it give me extra points for rarity in the comp?

[Kat1e]

An agrocybe, coccinea/corcoides

 

The verdigris agaric

 

and stereum hirsutum

 

nice to see you around again Katie, where you been hiding?

 

 

Thanks, I had no idea on the agrocybe.

 

Too much work, too little time! I'll resurface when the work lets up!

[Kev Stephenson]

 

Sometimes, you just gotta put your hands up and say "I dunno":lol:

 

sorry kev, but certain youll get a good ident of those guys and girls:thumbup1:

 

The reply from WAB is as follows

 

hi Kev

 

as often happens what appears on WAB is the weird and the atypical - a bit like posting a picture of a bird which has lost its feathers;), or a plant suffering from fasciation . . . .

 

this isn't what we would normally call a "bracket": it's an agaric (toadstool/mushroom/whatever)

 

the double stem is just freakish, and of no taxonomic value whatsoever; the general appearance, plus the interveining on the gills would strongly suggest an abnormal growth form of Mycena galericulata

 

cheers

 

Chris

[SJH]

A few more from today, I'm not really finding those rare ones but at least I'm enjoying myself searching for them.

 

Amanita spissa

 

Lactarius vietus

 

Amanita rubescens

 

Not too sure on this one, Amanita rubescens again?

[chris cnc]

your second ident is correct, the two are often in rather different woodland zones, with prcera prefering the edges even into the grassy fringes of the woodland habitat, hence the name the field parasol.

 

Wheras rhacodes is a lover of the deep dark woodland, and often found under dense holly and sycamores.

 

the two are quiet different once you get you eye in, Procera a fine edible, rhacodes not so much.

 

cheers, i did indeed find the fungi under dense sycamores in deep dark woodland! another new find for me

[RobArb]

:lol:Found these today near a landfill in billing... they look like yellow stagshorn but there not yellow!!! there was white spores everywhere:thumbup:

 

You may if your careful also spot the rare amberus nectarus spp beercan in the background if your lucky!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

:lol:Found these today near a landfill in billing... they look like yellow stagshorn but there not yellow!!! there was white spores everywhere:thumbup:

 

You may if your careful also spot the rare amberus nectarus spp beercan in the background if your lucky!

 

Xylaria hypoxylon, the candlesnuff fungus:thumbup1: