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Originally Posted by John
On Nov 18, 2:35*pm, Granity
wrote:
John;942023 Wrote:
Out walking the dogs and spotted a large ring of these 'Fungi pictures
by johnupatree - Photobucket' (Fungi pictures by johnupatree - Photobucket)
over thirty about the same size.
Can anyone tell me what they think they are please.
Thanks
My guess would be a clouded funnel cap (Clitocybe nebularis)
unfortunately you've cut the stem thereby denying us the identifying
feature of a bulb at the stems base. For identification purposes please
always pull the whole of the stem up as the stem base shape is
important, you mentioned they were growing in rings which is useful but
the other thing needed is the habitat they were found in as most species
only grow in a specific place such as under beach trees or in open grass
land etc.
I suggest you go to 'Rogers Mushrooms | Mushroom Pictures & Mushroom
Reference' (Rogers Mushrooms | Mushroom Pictures & Mushroom Reference)
and 'Fungi Britain Europe identification guide scientific names'
(Fungi Britain Europe identification guide scientific names)
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Granity
Thanks for the reply. I was always under the impression that cutting
was the preferred method of removal, as it did not cause so much
damage, is this incorrect?
I cut in half lengthways to see how the gills attached to the stem,
sorry! Again, I was imitating what I had seen in my mushroom and fungi
book.
I should be able to get another tomorrow, will pull it up and
photograph it uncut.
Cheers
Johno |
Cutting lengthways is fine and a helpful idea, cutting mushrooms is fine if you know what they are, but one of the easy way to potentially identifying the Amanita species, which contains the highly poisonous things like death caps, destroying angel etc, is that they have white gills and a volva at the base of the stem, those 2 combinations should ring alarm bells if you pick one and if you do don't lick your fingers.
I suggest you go to your local library and borrow a copy of Roger Philips "Mushrooms" and learn how to identify them, I can only make an informed "guess" looking at the photo not a definite answer.