Some fungi from September and October

[DaveMcC]

Back in September and October I was in a mixed woodland, mostly deciduous with beech, ash, oak, birch etc… and I found quite a lot of different fungi and I just need help with identifying and confirming what some are.

First, these 3 images. The first 2 are of the same fungi, found on a rotting tree stump:

[attachment=7]Fungi_1.jpg[/attachment]

[attachment=6]Fungi_1_SIde.jpg[/attachment]

This one was found on a rotting beech tree and the head had a slimy texture to it. Is it the same type of fungi as in the first two images above?

[attachment=5]Fungi_2.jpg[/attachment]

I found a few of these growing around the forest floor below beech trees. Not sure what it is:

[attachment=4]Fungi_3.jpg[/attachment]

This yellow fungi was growing below an area with mixed Pine, Beech, Ash and Birch trees:

[attachment=2]Yellow_Fungi_Top.jpg[/attachment]

[attachment=3]Yellow_Fungi_Side.jpg[/attachment]

This purple one I found under some beech trees:

[attachment=1]PurpleFungi.jpg[/attachment]

Glistening Ink Cap?

[attachment=0]GlistInkCap.jpg[/attachment]

I have more to ID/confirm, I’ll post them when I have edited the images.

[Chris Yeates]

Hi

the singular is fungus – i.e. “this fungus“, not “this fungi” . . .

you will appreciate that shots in the field are not always enough for identifications (though your photographs are better than many)

if #1-3 were in a better state I would suggest Oudemansiella mucida

#4 could well be Mycena rosea

#5/6 is a Russula – not an easy genus – might be the common R. ochroleuca, but . . .

#7 Laccaria amethystina

#8 yes almost certainly Coprinellus micaceus

[Flaxton]

And I would agree with all Chris’ suggestions.

Mal

[DaveMcC]

Thanks for the help, yes your right its fungus not fungi for single ones. I’ll remember in future. I have some more I need help to ID:

Trametes versicolor? Found these all over a fallen beech tree:

[attachment=4]Bracket Fungi on Beech.jpg[/attachment]

Oudemansiella mucida?

[attachment=3]SlimeFungi1.jpg[/attachment]

[attachment=2]SlimeFungus_Underside.jpg[/attachment]

This was growing on the same fallen beech tree as the first image of the bracket fungi.

[attachment=1]JellylikeFungi.jpg[/attachment]

[attachment=0]JellylikeFungiClose.jpg[/attachment]

[roy betts]

The white one with the gills:

O. mucida has a ring and grows on Beech wood.

Was this attached to wood or growing on soil/litter? To me it looks like an Hygrophorus sp. (Wood Wax) – which doesn’t grow attached to wood.

There are several white species of Hygrophorus that have viscid caps like Oudemansiella.

[Chris Yeates]

The last two show a species of Peziza, perhaps most likely one of the so-called “complex” around P. varia. This is however a very tricky area, even with the use of a microscope – which is essential for these fungi. There is a paper here which may give some idea of the complexity:

https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3153301/Pfister_PhylogeneticDiversityCore.pdf?sequence=1” class=”bbcode_url”>https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3153301/Pfister_PhylogeneticDiversityCore.pdf?sequence=1

regards

Chris

[DaveMcC]

roy betts wrote:

The white one with the gills:

O. mucida has a ring and grows on Beech wood.

Was this attached to wood or growing on soil/litter? To me it looks like an Hygrophorus sp. (Wood Wax) – which doesn’t grow attached to wood.

There are several white species of Hygrophorus that have viscid caps like Oudemansiella.

It was growing out of the soil at the edge of a woodland, not from a hidden bit of wood, so could be wood wax as from the images I have seen, it looks more like it.

Chris Yeates wrote:

The last two show a species of Peziza, perhaps most likely one of the so-called “complex” around P. varia. This is however a very tricky area, even with the use of a microscope – which is essential for these fungi. There is a paper here which may give some idea of the complexity:

https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3153301/Pfister_PhylogeneticDiversityCore.pdf?sequence=1” class=”bbcode_url”>https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3153301/Pfister_PhylogeneticDiversityCore.pdf?sequence=1

regards

Chris

Thanks for the link. Seems I have a lot to learn when it comes to identifying fungi.

[adampembs]

DaveMcC wrote:

Thanks for the link. Seems I have a lot to learn when it comes to identifying fungi.

It never ends…. c

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