UK Fungi

Adam & Mike - I think this probably isn't the right forum for me and it's time to move on. I think I'll give this fungi foray site a go http://www.fungiforays.co.uk/. All the best Marc I see no forum there... Interesting that they use the word "Foray" in their name - I wonder why; perhaps to give t...

This may be old news to some but I have been informed by a mycological friend that you can log in to the older FRDBI (now not being added to as there is the new version) but still very useful - here: https://basidiochecklist.science.kew.org/BritishFungi/FRDBI/FRDBI.asp It's a tad slow, I would say, ...

adampembs wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 16, 2019 6:57 pm

And a shame "Shropshirelass" never replied after so many people commented on her post. A thank you never hurts.

I wonder if the case is sometimes that newcomers, not familiar with the site, think their post has "disappeared" if they don't see it on the "front page" as it were . . .

Hello and welcome to UKFungi There has been a similar discussion on the site here: http://www.fungi.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2046 The likelihood (and I would not be more definite at this stage) is that this is Inonotus hispidus , which would not be good news. A lot of background info can be gleane...

adampembs wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 15, 2019 9:37 am

Has Coprinellus disseminatus been renamed?

Ah I see it's back in Coprinellus must check out recent Genbank entries . . .

Hi The reason that most photographs of Centaurea are shown from the side is that a key character is the shape of the involucral bracts. The flowers are pretty much of a muchness, though of course there are yellow-flowered knapweeds. While we don't have many in this country Flora Europaea lists over ...

Wow, yeah. :o It doesn't end there: https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-angels-bonnet-mycena-arcangeliana-gilled-fungi-on-stump-49237211.html?p=94906&srch=foo%3dbar%26st%3d0%26pn%3d1%26ps%3d100%26sortby%3d2%26resultview%3dsortbyPopular%26npgs%3d0%26qt%3dFungi%26qt_raw%3dFungi%26lic%3d3%26mr%3d0%26pr%...

Hi Archie A much more up to date treatment is here (again open source and downloadable): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166061614000505 . It has lots of useful references, and despite the title is of relevance to Britain (especially with climate change ;) ). But do bear in mind ...

The gills are pale - quite clear on some of the ones with slightly damaged caps. My money would be on Mycena aetites in a mown lawn habitat like that (and totally harmless to children, pets, the lawn, etc.). A timely reminder not to trust some images on the web: https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-a-c...

That shiny wrinkled cap is the giveaway - if you dug down you would have found the long "root" though that would have been rather destructive and unnecessary. Compare your find with https://www.first-nature.com/fungi/xerula-radicata.php . Similar wrinkled caps occur with some Pluteus species, but th...

Xerula radicata
cheers
Chris

marc t wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 10, 2019 6:19 pm

Orange birch boletus (Leccinum versipelle) in lovely ancient woodland. A great foraging day in late September...

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Might this not possibly be Leccinum aurantiacum? Impossible to check now of course . . .
Chris