Stuart Watson
Well-known member
Great pics Fungbot - i saw some similar to pic 4 growing out of a tree about 15 feet up yesterday, but it had whitish `rings` on it making it look layered
-
Welcome to BirdForum, the internet's largest birding community with thousands of members from all over the world. The forums are dedicated to wild birds, birding, binoculars and equipment and all that goes with it.
Please register for an account to take part in the discussions in the forum, post your pictures in the gallery and more.
Any fungi about? (7 Viewers)
- Thread starter Leif
- Start date
Silver
Registered Sane
Fungbot said:
Hi Fungbot. Great photographs!
Your mystery fungus on the spruce debris is the asexual ('imperfect') stage of the bracket, Oligoporus ptychogaster (formerly Tyromyces ptychogaster).
This asexual stage also has its own name: Ptychogaster fuliginoides.
It starts off white, but soon turns brownish and becomes a powdery mass of brown chlamydospores. It is said usually to be followed by the sexual stage, soft white brackets of variable shape, much like other 'Tyromyces' species before the genus was split up. In my own experience this asexual stage is much more common.
Or more conspicuous?
Alan
Last edited:
Fungbot/John
Those are nice photos you posted. The first though does not look typical for B. appendiculatus. The ones I see have a more yellow and red stem, and redder cap cuticle. I would be more inclined to wonder about B. impolitus, though I must admit that it is not possible to be sure either way from a photo. The shape of the stem is rather typical of B. impolitus. Also B. impolitus has an anti-septic smell esp. at the base when cut, and B. appendiculatus (to my nose) smells of smoky bacon when dried, though I have never heard it described that way elsewhere. Most people describe the smell as spicy. It's a very tasty species (B. appendiculatus), but sadly should not be eaten as it is so rare.
I was down on Dartmoor last weekend, and found B. calopus, Chanterelle, B. erythropus and an unidentified bolete rather like Tylopipus felleus but with yellowish pores. Most were growing from earth banks at the side of roads.
Today I was in the New Forest and I found Giant Polypore, B. subtomentosus, Chanterelle, Leccinum crocipodium, B. albidus (see photo), Green Cups (see photo), Wood Woolly Foot, Phaeolus schweinitzii, and various Russula, though nowhere were fungi common.
Leif
Those are nice photos you posted. The first though does not look typical for B. appendiculatus. The ones I see have a more yellow and red stem, and redder cap cuticle. I would be more inclined to wonder about B. impolitus, though I must admit that it is not possible to be sure either way from a photo. The shape of the stem is rather typical of B. impolitus. Also B. impolitus has an anti-septic smell esp. at the base when cut, and B. appendiculatus (to my nose) smells of smoky bacon when dried, though I have never heard it described that way elsewhere. Most people describe the smell as spicy. It's a very tasty species (B. appendiculatus), but sadly should not be eaten as it is so rare.
I was down on Dartmoor last weekend, and found B. calopus, Chanterelle, B. erythropus and an unidentified bolete rather like Tylopipus felleus but with yellowish pores. Most were growing from earth banks at the side of roads.
Today I was in the New Forest and I found Giant Polypore, B. subtomentosus, Chanterelle, Leccinum crocipodium, B. albidus (see photo), Green Cups (see photo), Wood Woolly Foot, Phaeolus schweinitzii, and various Russula, though nowhere were fungi common.
Leif
Attachments
Last edited:
Henry B said:
Henry: It's a Parasol Mushroom, though I'm not sure of the species. It's definitely not Macrolepiota rhacodes, but it could be Macrolepiota procera, though the colouration seems a bit dark for the species. There are several similar species and I don't find them easy to identify, esp. from a photo. Alan might be more informative.
Leif
Dubh Ghall
Well-known member
Silver said:
That cusp, puts me in mind of Psilocybe, Liberty Cap.
Adey Baker
Member
Adey Baker
Member
Leif said:
I think I'll give it a miss, then!
Some parts of the woods are coppiced and kept reasonably tidy whilst other areas are left 'unmanaged' - this was in a part of the woods that has a feeling of 'controlled neglect' about it.
Paminfra
Well-known member
It's hard with thumbnails but they look like Parasols (Lepiota procera) in which case they make excellent eating provided you are certain that's what they are! Over here in Brittany we have had drought conditions for so long that the forest (150 metres from my house) is almost completely barren of fungi. It was the same last year as well and if we don't get substantial rain very soon that will be another season gone!!! Woe indeed. Pam.
Larry Lade
Moderator
My son and I went down to Bluff Woods Conservation Area just south of Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA, today and found several types of fungi. He was able to identify some of them, but I need to study up on these. Here are a few of them.
Attachments
Last edited:
Larry Lade said:
You fungal flora is somewhat different from ours, but I've had a go;
1) I'm clueless on this one.
2) I could not say on the basis of a photo. The large white ones could be Entoloma sinuatum (pink gills, distinctive spores, poisonous), but they look too small, or a Tricholoma species.
3) A Suillus. It looks rather like S. grevillei, which grows with Larch, but it's probably a related US species.
4) Wood Ear, Jew's Ear, Auricularia auricula judae (spelling?). Very common. eaten by the Chinese (our local takeaway uses it in Hot and Sour Soup).
Leif
Larry Lade
Moderator
Well, I am not certain what the above are. My son, here on a visit from New York, belongs to a Mycological Club there and is learning to identify some of the species of mushrooms. I have only collected morels (in the spring) and oyster mushrooms for eating, so this "going out and looking for mushrooms" is something entirely new to me. I found it rather fascinating though and will be doing it more in the future.
When he checks with some of the club members when my son gets back to New York perhaps I will be able to let you know what kind of mushrooms these are!
Here are four more photos of some of the species we saw today.
When he checks with some of the club members when my son gets back to New York perhaps I will be able to let you know what kind of mushrooms these are!
Here are four more photos of some of the species we saw today.
Attachments
Larry Lade
Moderator
Leif, I believe photo #1 and photo #7 are of the same species. Looks to me like you are correct on #4, Auricularia auricula. I believe I know what #6 and #8 are. Photo of #6 is a little fuzzy (I must have jiggled when I took the photo.)
Larry Lade
Moderator
Larry Lade said:
1) and 7) Very beautiful, but still not a clue.
5) It's certainly a Mycena species. It might be Mycena haematopus, which is fairly common in the UK, though I'm not convinced. Mycena inclinata (specific to Oak I think) is similar, but I've never seen it so pale.
6) That is definitely a fuzzy white blob. No doubt about it.
8) Chanterelle.
Leif
