More mushrooms to ID

[JMikeyH]

I picked the one above to get a better look at the gills. I thought it was Medusa mushroom before I took one up. It was growing in great clumps, absolutely loads of them.
Well, it's not Medusa, so what is it? I've considered clouded agaric, grey knight, grey milkcap but none of them sit totally right with me. It has scaling on the cap which seems fairly distinctive to me and I couldn't find an example of either of the 3 I just listed with scaling.

Star Pinkgill? Really quite stumped on this one. Going to resort to flicking through the mushroom encyclopaedia unless someone could kindly direct me to a few suspects

 

[Alantoo]

Aways more difficult from a photograph...and with none of the other clues like position, adjacent trees etc. In my ignorance I just jumped to Parasol at first glance of the top photo but you sound much more advanced in fungi recognition than me.

Alan

 

[JMikeyH]

Aways more difficult from a photograph...and with none of the other clues like position, adjacent trees etc. In my ignorance I just jumped to Parasol at first glance of the top photo but you sound much more advanced in fungi recognition than me.

Alan

Sorry, I really should've taken a picture of the environment, didn't anticipate feeling the need to post on here for pointers! The top one was growing in grass, in clumps similar in the way sulfur tuft and medusa mushroom do, underneath a horse chestnut tree. Didn't seem to be growing in rings, perhaps growing off the root system of the tree?

The second one was solitary in a field, not close enough to any tree to help indicate though there were some Ash and Lime trees about

Cheers,

 

[JMikeyH]

I suspect some kind of Russula for the second one, though the gills are not brittle. Charcoal burner?

 

[shakey jake]

might be my phone but it looks slightly off white on the stem in photo 4, photo 3 looks like an older washed out field blewit, smaller ones are firm and purple.
not 100 on the image though

 

[JMikeyH]

might be my phone but it looks slightly off white on the stem in photo 4, photo 3 looks like an older washed out field blewit, smaller ones are firm and purple.
not 100 on the image though

It's close but not quite, I've got three of this specimen and none of them have a hint of lilac on the stem. The gills also have notch before they reach the stem which the field blewit doesn't seem to have

 

[shakey jake]

It's close but not quite, I've got three of this specimen and none of them have a hint of lilac on the stem. The gills also have notch before they reach the stem which the field blewit doesn't seem to have

the old one do lose their colour. mushroom humting is nearly as much fun as stalking.

 

[JMikeyH]

the old one do lose their colour. mushroom humting is nearly as much fun as stalking.

Agreed, I do enjoy it as much as I do stalking and fishing! I'll go check field blewit again Here's a couple more pictures now it's dried out a little bit overnight

 

[Fair Hill]

the old one do lose their colour. mushroom humting is nearly as much fun as stalking.

A magnificent specimen to admire here...

Doneraile man finds a mushroom the same size as his head

A DONERAILE man who went out for a leisurely walk in local woodlands last Sunday sure got a bit surprise – in the shape of a mega mushroom the size of his own head.

www.independent.ie

 

[Pine Marten]

I'm at the office again today and the grass out front is carpeted with boletes, it's ridiculous!

 

[JMikeyH]

I'm at the office again today and the grass out front is carpeted with boletes, it's ridiculous!

Hope you get to them before someone else does! I found a great patch of penny buns, all too small to pick, in my local woods. Covered them with leaf litter and going to return on the weekend...

 

[Pine Marten]

Hope you get to them before someone else does! I found a great patch of penny buns, all too small to pick, in my local woods. Covered them with leaf litter and going to return on the weekend...

I can pretty much guarantee that no-one else here is going to go anywhere near them...

 

[Pine Marten]

A few samples of what's on offer:

 

[JMikeyH]

A few samples of what's on offer:

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Any vacancies at this office? Great stuff. Is it a lurid bolete in the foreground?
This is my effort for the afternoon walk

Horse mushrooms, parasols, wood blewits and tawny funnels mostly. Apparently the tawny funnels aren't the best tasting but I'm willing to give them a try

 

[deerstalker.308]

@JMikeyH Is the first one scaly shield mushroom (pluteus petasatus)?

 

[Pine Marten]

I spotted a few shaggy inkcaps further away but I do actually have to do work when I'm here and I don't think I'll make it that far between meetings. Are the purple ones the blewits?

 

[deerstalker.308]

Pluteus cervinus for the second one?

 

[Morkai]

Agreed, I do enjoy it as much as I do stalking and fishing! I'll go check field blewit again Here's a couple more pictures now it's dried out a little bit overnight

Ive been talking with a friend about a bit of foraging, I see you have a book there in the background.

Can you or others here recommend a good book, either that one or others for UK species?

Dont want to derail/hijack your thread but its probably not worth starting a new one.

Thank you

 

[JMikeyH]

I spotted a few shaggy inkcaps further away but I do actually have to do work when I'm here and I don't think I'll make it that far between meetings. Are the purple ones the blewits?

Yep! Certainly the one that is very purple is, the ones with brown gills I believe to be wood blewits as well, just mature specimens. The gills turn brown with maturity, still working on that one.

Pluteus cervinus for the second one?

That's a good suspect, the only discrepancy is that Pluteus Cervinus is said to grow on wood whereas this was in a grass field. Perhaps it was growing on a root structure? I sent some pictures off to wildfooduk and anticipate a positive ID from them.

 

[JMikeyH]

@JMikeyH Is the first one scaly shield mushroom (pluteus petasatus)?

I came to the conclusion it was The Grey Knight, sadly a mushroom that can cause kidney damage if eaten in "a quantity" which is a bit arbitrary for my tastes...