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As it's currently in the news I thought I would show an image of the culprit. The disease started out as the anamorphic Chalara stage, but (as often happens) this has been followed by the sexual "discomycete" state. A key character separating it from the benign Hymenoscyphus albidus on the same subs...

Thanks Andrew
I'll PM you my email address (and will treat yours as confidential, as I always do).
Chris

Hello Andrew and welcome to UK Fungi Perhaps the reason for your struggles is that this fungus has assumed an atypical shape, due to its being mature and (probably) the amount of rain we've had recently. It is surely that most attractive of the waxcaps - Porpolomopsis calyptriformis = Hygrocybe caly...

Hello Bob
Yes the first three show one of the moulds which attack older boletes. The last shot looks to me like classic Imleria badia (=Boletus badius).
Best wishes
Chris

Spore-print? I suspect if you did one you would get brownish spores, ruling out Cystolepiota - which in addition should show veil remnants.
I think this is Inocybe geophylla var. lilacina.
Cheers
Chris

A spore print is always useful in these cases - you dont have to take the whole cap. There seems to be a pinkish flush on some of the gills. One can't see the gill attachment . . . if the gills were free then a pink spored/ free-gilled / lignicolous toadstool without a volva would suggest a Pluteus ...

Looks fine to me, it's been "grazed" a bit . . .

Basic toadstool identifying:

• Does it have gills? If it has a veil like this carefully remove it - then does it have gills?

• If it is has gills is it honey fungus? - the majority of beginners' posts seem always to be honey fungus.

• This will have gills; it is honey fungus . . . .

Hello Neil Not a Peziza : Otidea sp. impossible to take it further without pure guesswork*. Regards Chris *though this - well worth getting if you regularly visit the New Forest - https://www.abebooks.co.uk/Fungi-New-Forest-Mycota-Dickson-Leonard/11183910044/bd might give an idea of what has been fo...

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Thu Oct 31, 2019 10:29 am

I believe quorn is a fungal product does anyone konw anything about what it looks like or how they grow it?

https://www.quorn.co.uk/about-quorn

I agree with Adam; a quick 'snap' and a 5-word message, which carries no information is hardly sufficient.
I recently spent many hours checking out a Chlorophyllum collection (which this might be) including taking numerous photo's of micro-structures - there are 'look-alikes'.

Loath though I am to disagree with Mal, I have to here. The gills, running down virtually to the base of the stem are diagnostic for Pleurotus cornucopiae. Check out pages 375-376 of the 2nd edition of Funga Nordica.
Chris