Fungus No. 1 for ID if possible!?

[Ranger Matt]

Any help would be appreciated. Spread fairly well (roughly) around crown edge/drip line of mature roadside poplar - BUT not immediately next to butt of tree! For all I know may be a general woodland floor fungus.

 

Thanks in advance.

[Paul Melarange]

Looks like Phaeolus toaddimageus to me 😝

[Ranger Matt]

I'll be honest...I actually looked that up on Google you swine! D'oh! Attachment issues...! Not sure why but may have to resubmit?

[Ranger Matt]

Take two on the pics...

[Paul Melarange]

I'm going to go for Lactarius sp. Jordan (2004) described Lactarius controversus as 'solitary or in scattered groups on soil with poplar'. He also describes it as infrequent! So your guess is as good as mine! 😀

 

Hopefully Mr Humphries will have the answer 😃

 

PS I didn't make this one up 😜

[David Humphries]

Any help would be appreciated. Spread fairly well (roughly) around crown edge/drip line of mature roadside poplar - BUT not immediately next to butt of tree! For all I know may be a general woodland floor fungus.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

I'm going to go for Lactarius sp. Jordan (2004) described Lactarius controversus as 'solitary or in scattered groups on soil with poplar'. He also describes it as infrequent! So your guess is as good as mine!

 

The sure fire way to know if its Lactarius spp, is that it 'bleeds' milk/latex from the damaged gills almost instantaneously like the images below.

 

I'm not seeing that on the gill image above.

 

Did it bleed Matt?

 

If not, then I would look to it being perhaps Leucopaxillus giganteus (the Giant Funnel)

 

 

 

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[Paul Melarange]

So near yet so far! 😔

[Ranger Matt]

Thanks to both of you. No milky liquid seen so looks like the latter! Some literature says it is uncommon - would that be your experience too chaps?

[Kveldssanger]

Lactarius = lactate?