Tis the season to see Fungi, fa la la la la....

[AJStrees]

A good selection there. Thanks for sharing. 

 

I will have a good look through and see which ones I can name and study those that I don't know. 

 

Fungi is a very interesting subject, I have to agree. 

[slack ma girdle]

Turkey tastic

[David Humphries]

33 minutes ago, slack ma girdle said:

Turkey tastic

Nice

[AJStrees]

1 hour ago, slack ma girdle said:

Turkey tastic

Thats a whole lotta fungi. 

[Mick Dempsey]

Had to stop the car and take a photo of these in a maize field.

 

I assume that it has recently changed from a grass meadow to crops, hence the presence of what I’m guessing is a giant puffball.

Edited May 23, 2019 by Mick Dempsey

[David Humphries]

5 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Had to stop the car and take a photo of these in a maize field.

 

I'm guessing that it has recently changed from a grass meadow to crops, hence the presence of what I’m guessing is a giant puffball.

Sizeable fruitbodies. Not sure they are ‘giant puffballs’ (Calvatia gigantea) as they tend to be pure white and not scaly/dimpled like these. Possibly another puffball species. 

Sounds daft, but I take it that you looked underneath and ruled out they had gills?

Did ya take one for the pot ?

[Mick Dempsey]

1 minute ago, David Humphries said:

Sizeable fruitbodies. Not sure they are ‘giant puffballs’ (Calvatia gigsnteum) as they tend to be pure white and not scaly/dimpled like theses. Possibly another puffball species. 

I take that you looked underneath and ruled out they had gills?

Did ya take one for the pot ?

No, afraid not, eating unknown fungi is daft, as I’m sure you’ll agree, they were too perfect for smashing up, and I had to trespass into an agricultural field so was conscious of being watched.

 

Unusual to see something like that in a bare earth field?

[David Humphries]

3 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

No, afraid not, eating unknown fungi is daft, as I’m sure you’ll agree, they were too perfect for smashing up, and I had to trespass into an agricultural field so was conscious of being watched.

 

Unusual to see something like that in a bare earth field?

Yeah relatively unusual to find that type of fruiting in an agricultural field as the mass of mycelium in the soil would be too disturbed to grow and put on such large fb’s. 

Agreed, eating unknown species is not clever.

[Wood-be]

So I'm a bit stumped, i have seemed to of found a sideways growing bracket of sorts. Its on an ash stem but i have also seen smaller ones on a large cedar of Lebanon. can some one tell what these are please?

[David Humphries]

1 hour ago, Wood-be said:

So I'm a bit stumped, i have seemed to of found a sideways growing bracket of sorts. Its on an ash stem but i have also seen smaller ones on a large cedar of Lebanon. can some one tell what these are please?

I don’t think these are fruiting bodies. They look woody to me. Perhaps cankered burrs.