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Produce => Wildlife forum => Topic started by: adrianhumph on November 01, 2009, 09:53:22
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Hello all, :D
Please can you help to identify these mushrooms?
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Thanks Adrian.
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The three funnel-shaped ones in the middle pic appear to be Hygrophorus camarophyllus. They should have brittle flesh, and not much scent. They're supposed to be good to eat, but I haven't come across it. I'm not sure about the flat-capped one; I need to see the underside of the cap.
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Hello Robert,
Thanks for your reply, I asked the same question on the wild about britain web site & on their fungi forum was advised that the picture with 3 in were Clitocybe geotropa & the single one was Clitocybe nebularis,
It just goes to show how difficult fungus ID is ::)
Adrian.
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and i reckon the flat capped one is a fly agaric, a bit dried out, but an amantia none the less
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I think the right-hand one is a cloudy agaric. (Fly agarics are the red-spotted ones they always draw in kid's books.) Not poisonous, but fairly inedible.
Come to that, I wouldn't eat any of them....
(But I did find some very nice bluitts the other day.)
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What colour are the tops? I thought they were dark, hence the identification, but on second thoughts it could just be shadow.
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Hello Robert,
The tops are pale, the same as the stems, they do look dark in the picture, as you say it`s shadow.
Adrian.
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In that case I was wrong.
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The single one could pass for a death cap.