Mushrooms

muckish

I must confess I don't know my mushrooms from my toadstools but I think they are fascinating fungi and I love photographing them. It seems to be the season for them as they're appearing everywhere. Here's a few from a trip to Glenveagh yesterday.

muckish

A few more... Can anyone identify these?

cruizer101

Some lovely pics, thanks for sharing love to go take a look myself. Don't really know fungi well, but think top one is a mini puffball, the kinda orangy one is called a pigs ears i think cause its kinda gristly. Bit of googling should find you the others although don't think i'd try eating without expert advice.

Velvet shank

first one is a puffball - Lycoperdon perlatum

the red caps are Amanita muscaria (Fly agaric) - the smaller one with the unexpanded cap seems to have had white cap scales washed off

the large cluster in gravel is probably Coprinellus micaceus (called Coprinus until recently)

the orange cup fungus is Aleuria aurantia (Orange peel fungus)

the brown one below the Orange peel looks like a Cortinarius species - these are often quite difficult to identify to species level

next one is probably a Psathyrella, possibly P. microrhiza,

last one is Helvella crispa (Elfin saddle/White saddle....

nice pics!....

greenpeter

Can any of them be eaten?

Velvet shank

greenpeter wrote: »

Can any of them be eaten?

the puffball - Lycoperdon perlatum - is edible when young, i.e. when still white and firm....

..as always, the advice with trying wild mushrooms is to avoid those about which you have any doubts as to their correct identification.

artieanna

Velvet shank wrote: »

first one is a puffball - Lycoperdon perlatum

the red caps are Amanita muscaria (Fly agaric) - the smaller one with the unexpanded cap seems to have had white cap scales washed off

the large cluster in gravel is probably Coprinellus micaceus (called Coprinus until recently)

the orange cup fungus is Aleuria aurantia (Orange peel fungus)

the brown one below the Orange peel looks like a Cortinarius species - these are often quite difficult to identify to species level

next one is probably a Psathyrella, possibly P. microrhiza,

last one is Helvella crispa (Elfin saddle/White saddle....

nice pics!....

Nice work there Velvet shank, Thanks for the knowledge:eek:

Gregsor

Great pics up there ,i have a few in the garden i am curious about



I also have some one dayers appear around the moss of the tree but they haven't popped in a while i will try get a snap of them.
Also had a Fungi along the conker trees on the driveway during the summer,it was the size of a football and marshmallow like,kids destroyed it though before i was told of it :mad:

Velvet shank

the top one is Pholiota squarrosa; a dense cluster (such as in your pic) around the base of trees is typical of the species..

not sure about the second one.. a pic of a younger, less 'ripe' one might sort it out

the one you described sounds very like the giant puffball, Calvatia gigantea...a good edible, though they often suffer the same fate as yours!...might appear in the same place next year

muckish

Thanks for all the ID's. Just as well I hate the taste of mushrooms so I wont risk poisoning myself.

these one must have been at least 1ft in diameter

muckish

like WWII paratroopers

Gregsor

It's been a while but i have a few new species starting around the garden in the last week with mild weather





The shriveled pale one was picked about 2 hours before the larger one which had been picked about 30 mins before the photograph.

They remind me of Morels which i have used in sauces with their outer appearance.

Alun

They definitely look like morels alright, and they can be found in Ireland as I understand it. It's the right time of the year for them as well.

LK_Dave

Any idea what this guy is called? They are growing under the trees in my drive. The big guy is over a foot wide.

Desmo

Velvet shank wrote: »

first one is a puffball - Lycoperdon perlatum

the red caps are Amanita muscaria (Fly agaric) - the smaller one with the unexpanded cap seems to have had white cap scales washed off

the large cluster in gravel is probably Coprinellus micaceus (called Coprinus until recently)

the orange cup fungus is Aleuria aurantia (Orange peel fungus)

the brown one below the Orange peel looks like a Cortinarius species - these are often quite difficult to identify to species level

next one is probably a Psathyrella, possibly P. microrhiza,

last one is Helvella crispa (Elfin saddle/White saddle....

nice pics!....

Nice one Velvet Shank

Savage924

The Fly Agaric ones ( first picture red with white dots on it) is a "magic" mushroom/can make you trip balls. I'm pretty sure they can also potentially kill people.

thebishop

A few from Killarney yesterday. The purple one is about an inch and a half across if anyone knows what it is.

Velvet shank

purple one is the Amethyst deceiver - Laccaria amethystina

Esel

muckish wrote: »

Savage924 wrote: »

The Fly Agaric ones ( first picture red with white dots on it) is a "magic" mushroom/can make you trip balls. I'm pretty sure they can also potentially kill people.

You're right there - but the OP is well-dead by now if they did.

muckish

Still alive!!

KJ

I found these on the grounds of the gym today. Are they all poisonous?

Velvet shank

I'm fairly sure the bigger one is Coprinopsis atramentaria (previously Coprinus atramentarius) which, on its own is not poisonous. However, when consumed with alcohol it can induce quite severe (though generally temporary) poisoning symptoms, so is obviously best avoided completely.

not sure about the other one - possibly a Psathyrella species - the edibility of Psathyrella species is often unknown, so they should also be avoided completely.

username123

thebishop wrote: »

Can anyone identify this image, found some of them last week.

Velvet shank

username123 wrote: »

Can anyone identify this image, found some of them last week.

Coprinus comatus - Lawyer's wig or Shaggy Ink cap

username123

Velvet shank wrote: »

Coprinus comatus - Lawyer's wig or Shaggy Ink cap

Thank you very much. I was at a mushroom hunt and brought this back in my basket, then while I was in the loo it was collected out of the basket by one of the chefs and I missed asking what it was called.

Gaspode

Hope nobody minds me jumping in here with a few for identification. I'm particularly interested in the blue ones, I've never seen anything like them before. They strike me as something that would be poisonous.




A day Later








Suspect this is a chanterelle


Lots of these guys in the grass.

Gaspode

Well, I asked a mycologist and it seems the blue ones I posted above are most likely Stropharia aeruginosa or Verdigris toadstool. They are poisonous, though the coulour signals that fairly well!

DarkDusk

I'm linking to a thread I made in the gardening forum regarding to mushrooms that I found in my garden today, I'm hoping that someone will be able to identify them for me... Thanks in advance!
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056946251

spookwoman

Picture might help

DarkDusk

Pics are in the thread I linked to, unless you want me to post them in this thread also?

DarkDusk

Really, hmmm, give me a minute then...

DarkDusk

Here's a link to the folder of pics, let me know if it works...
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/11bfahjiksyabsz/4GTGpru6Ol

spookwoman

DarkDusk wrote: »

Here's a link to the folder of pics, let me know if it works...
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/11bfahjiksyabsz/4GTGpru6Ol

Works. I'd be wary of mushroom the only ones I know to be safe and see are horse / field mushrooms.

Eyepatch

These pop up two or three times a year under my copper beech - after heavy rain.

Here they are again, spreading out into my lawn.
They last only a day or so, before turning black, and dying away. Any ideas? Are they linked to copper beech in particular? And what are they called? I presume not to be eaten!! Thank you.

Velvet shank

Eyepatch wrote: »

These pop up two or three times a year under my copper beech - after heavy rain.

Here they are again, spreading out into my lawn.


They last only a day or so, before turning black, and dying away. Any ideas? Are they linked to copper beech in particular? And what are they called? I presume not to be eaten!! Thank you.

looks like Coprinellus micaceus (Coprinus micaceus). not linked to copper beech in particular, but a very common species, particularly around tree stumps. Apparently edible but worthless, but like all species identified only from a photo or two here, should not be eaten.

MeteoritesEire

taken last year
I.D help appreciated thanks velvet ;-)

MeteoritesEire

the important bit

Velvet shank

MeteoritesEire wrote: »

taken last year
I.D help appreciated thanks velvet ;-)

Honey fungus (Armillaria species). Until recently you'd have probably automatically said this was Armillaria mellea, but it's seems a bit more complicated now, and there are several very similar Armillaria species that need to be looked at closely to certain of the precise ID.

link to an article about it on the Northern Ireland fungus group website here

http://www.nifg.org.uk/armillaria.htm

Hoof_Hearted

Hello, I don't have any pics (some stunning ones here, thanks) but I think I found boletus, the only thing not matching my guide is the stem. Mine have thin stems, 5mm diam. roughly. My guide shows quite bulbous stems. In other respects they match, brown cap, pores and white flesh above the pores covered by the brown cap. Would anyone know if they are likely to be boletus? Found under pine trees, pores are mucky green.
Thanks!

Velvet shank

Hoof_Hearted wrote: »

Hello, I don't have any pics (some stunning ones here, thanks) but I think I found boletus, the only thing not matching my guide is the stem. Mine have thin stems, 5mm diam. roughly. My guide shows quite bulbous stems. In other respects they match, brown cap, pores and white flesh above the pores covered by the brown cap. Would anyone know if they are likely to be boletus? Found under pine trees, pores are mucky green.
Thanks!

sounds like a bolete, but not a Boletus!

the thin stems make it more likely a Suillus or Xerocomus sp.

Hoof_Hearted

Velvet shank wrote: »

sounds like a bolete, but not a Boletus!

the thin stems make it more likely a Suillus or Xerocomus sp.

The thanks button isn't enough! It's Xerocomus alright, I'm more impressed than disappointed. Thank you indeed velvet shank.

ScumLord

Savage924 wrote: »

The Fly Agaric ones ( first picture red with white dots on it) is a "magic" mushroom/can make you trip balls. I'm pretty sure they can also potentially kill people.

They're not quite as easy to take as liberty caps, they need to be prepared a particular way to make them psychedelic.

They have a very interesting history in relation to Christmas.