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We spread a load of wood chippings over some of the garden a while ago and this week a healthy looking crop of fungi has appeared.
I love mushrooms but am not daft enough to just pick, cook & eat these so am after some help identifying them.
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Try TMA fungi app. Tree focused, but they're on rotting tree material.
Agrocybe rivulosa
grows on woodchip mulch
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We have an amazing climate for fungi on the Isle of Mull - these are some I’ve found recently. Top one I believe is a Parasol Mushroom and the lower one a Penny Bun - this was huge, about a foot high and 10” across. Both edible apparently.
Where I used to live in Hampshire we watched mushroom pickers completely destroy the native fungi - they would destroy everything as the rummaged through the leaf litter. After a few years of this, there was nothing.
The TMA app is a good bet, otherwise posting on the tree health care forum on Arbtalk may well bring a positive ident. Why and where have you spread the mulch, as you may have invited an Armillaria species in to the garden, if it wasn't there already. As a group they are difficult to differentiate, not helped by having a highly variable morphology. The main problem is that some species, notably A. mellea, are more pathogenic than others.
We had a tree, an Acer, cut down in the back garden and used some of the chippings to spread on the soil under a cherry blossom tree to try and prevent weed growth. I assume this means we haven’t introduced a ‘foreign’ species in to the garden, but it does look a lot like Honey Fungus.
The Fungi doc on Netflix is a good watch.
Use 2 different sources to identify once you know what you are doing.
After a close shave with a yellow stainer a couple of years ago, I only collect Chantrelles.
yea, could be a honey fungus. Both the parasol and penny bun are edible but the wild parasols can be a bit stringy.
The best i've had are chantrelles - really nice flavour.
Be careful on the woodpile, there is a hallucinogenic variety which looks similar - girdled mottle gill!
I usually start by assuming they're poisonous and trying to prove otherwise. I use a book:
Easy Edible Mushroom Guide by Prof D Pegler (and internet pics)
If you think they're edible but not sure, you can rub a bit on your skin, see if there is a reaction within 24 hrs and maybe try a tiny bit, again wait 24 hrs. If you get no reaction, they're prob safe to eat but can't guarantee they will taste nice.
Definately acquaint yourself with the types of poisoning though, just in case!