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My garden seems to have suddenly filled with fungi - there's not mushroom left! (Sorry). Trying to identify before my granddaughter comes to play in case there's anything nasty, but I'm not that confident in my prognosis. Can anyone advise?
Exhibit A - This looks to me like (according to my RSPB book of British wildlife) Panthercap (deadly 😧) but doesn't have rings on the stem. Also a couple of them are more red than brown.
Exhibit B - may be a common funnel (edible).
Exhibit C - i think is Brown Rollrim (poisonous).
Now, I'm not going to go eating anything, but concerned about having poisonous ones with a toddler around. Was just going to cut the grass but thinking I may need to remove them with more care in case I spread stuff around.
All are individual or in small groups spaced apart, partial shade under oak trees, on sandy clayey soil.
Anything I can do to stop them coming back if they are dangerous?
The top one looks like it's from the Russula family, though as i understand it they are notoriously difficult to identify. To be honest I wouldn't be eating any of those, but none of them look to be deadly poisonous either.
Edit: Just seen the text at the bottom of your post, yeah remove them and put them in the compost bin, not much you can do to stop them coming back as the micellium will be spread through the soil.
Exhibit C does look like Brown Rollrim. I'm certainly far from familiar with any fungus and wouldn't eat any, but as I understand it they can be deadly poisonous. I only know this due to a FB post I seen recently and I have tonnes of them in my garden
I thought some kind of Russula too.
I've noticed loads of fungi this year, a huge variety and big specimens. Have other people noted more than normal? Wonder if its cause its been warm. Or maybe I've just been outside more cause its not raining.
Russula?
Russula?
Russula?
Milkcap?
Have lots of fungi in our lawn this year.
Only solution is to supervise the toddler
Quite a out this morning, some quite large that weren't there Friday.
Size 11 for scale
https://www.wildfooduk.com/mushroom-guide/
That site is pretty good. I wouldn't go eating any based on what it says but it's a decent starting point and it also lists commonly confused varieties that look similar.
Loads out around mine at the moment, I love this time of year.
Have other people noted more than normal?
Yes more than usual in the garden, I just mowed them. Presume they’ll be back soon though.
Our back garden has loads at the mo, don't remember seeing a single one before in the 16 years we've been here, in places there isn't mush room to put a foot down without squashing several.
I wouldn’t go eating any
based on what it saysunless I knew exactly what I was doing
I have a friend who's very much into his mushroom foraging, and he likes to say the outcome of eating wild mushrooms is "either a tasty risotto, or renal failure, there's not much in between".
the outcome of eating wild mushrooms is “either a tasty risotto, or renal failure, there’s not much in between”.
There are a couple of edible ones that are easily recognised, there's some on a shared use walking/cycling trail near mine.
Problem is, that whole area is a dog toilet - no way I'd be picking any berries, mushrooms etc that were anywhere near dog pissing range.