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Fungus season in the local woods feels like it's really late and really long this year. Last couple of weeks loads of these have appeared. Top pic is of a smaller specimen (about 10cm diameter), but they flatten out and grow to about plate sized before cracking and falling apart. Anyone know what they are?
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Have you been in the New Forest?......
Anyone know what they are?
They are the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting bodies of fungi.
If I was stood in front of it I’d have a fighting chance to ID it with my guide book in hand. I’d be looking at habitat - what tree is it growing under? - and what does it smell and feel like. There’s too many mushrooms to be able to ID with a picture alone. Surely gets better if you’re a real expert but I’m not. It’s good fun standing in the woods and trying tho, but not much fun from a picture alone 🙂
Nonetheless, I’ll wager could be rollrim, chanterelle or oyster of some sort (and there’s many types of each). 2 of those 3 is delicious and you probably recognise the name, the other is poisonous. Good luck!
yeah as said where were they growing, near what trees , did you cut then in half, what was the 'juice' in them like, did it change colour, what does the top of the cap look like... and so on! it certainly is an agaric as its gilled..!
very hard to say from a heavily saturated pic and one in black and white.
Seriously though, I've seen large groups of people out harvesting carrier bags full of fungi in the New Forest. There's a lot of publicity locally about this at the moment.
Obviously a nice little money maker to sell on to local restaurants as local produce, but I'm concerned they may not be 100% sure what they are picking.
If you don't know, leave it alone!
Point taken about the photos!
No intention of foraging (although I would love to learn how to identify edible mushrooms).
Bit of digging and I reckon Trooping Funnel is best fit as way too big for Chanterelle / False Chanterelle.
It's a whole plethora of info and education needed on shrooms. To much can go wrong quickly. Go with an expert and a book if you want to get into it. Personally the supermarket does me.
Hadn’t occurred to me we were even thinking about removing the little blighters. Let me know if you figure out what it is, there’s a joy in that. Re-read your OP and handn’t noticed the size you mentioned, blimey!
whilst it is a complex world of fungi, you can learn the groups and trends and how to spot them quite quickly and it makes a walk in the woods all the more interesting.
Is it blue / purple? Looks like a pied bleu / wood blewit.
The one in the top picture looks like a Blue Stalk (Blewit, as above). Quite a few of the older lads (men) used to walk miles looking for them.
Common funnel cap or clubfoot I’d guess. Pretty frequent at this time of year, usually arranged in groups at the base of trees or stumps. Too large for a blewitt. Inedible.
not an edible species
definitely not chanterelle
oysters grow in clusters on dead wood
I dont think its deadly poisonous either but I could be wrong
you could break a bit off, see if theres a milky sap, then leave it
taste a little bit, spit it out if it tastes bad then wait half an hour to see if youre sick.......
if it smells of almonds, leave it
Am I right?