UK Fungi

very nice will have to look out for it

I get rather excited when I find fungi in the garden and have planted my garden up to encourage all forms of wildlife and no chemicals are ever used who wants a manicured lawn and as others have said a sterile garden if you want rid of fungi and by the sound of it anything else listen to gardeners q...

I know the feeling

Very Funny made me laugh

Out looking for the Scarlet Elf Cap (which I found) and I came across a small group of these white/ivory fungi growing under the canopy of a couple of taxus in the middle of a mixed woodland. Slightly greasy cap and no smell. Is it likely to be Hygrocye virginea (Cuphophyllus virgineus) just in the...

This might all be academic since the FCT web site forum may be closed. Apparently they have so many spam registrations that they cannot cope, all very sad. I would suggest a FCT sub-forum here, but it is for Adam to decide. I am a member of the AFBG or should I say FTC but not of the BMC I have pos...

Hi everyone! I wasn't sure where to post this, my name is Paul, a failed wannabe rock-god disguised as a funiture fitter, and living in Edinburgh. I have always had a great passion for the natural world, without having the knowledge to no what I am looking at most of the time. For the last 3 year I...

This place is near were I live the chap that set the garden up a few years ago did a talk at our local Scottish Wildlife Trust meeting and it was fascinating but there were a few worried husbands by the end of the night. I have experience with hogweed it does not just have to be giant hogweed that b...

Not long ago Aldi were selling one very similar to that for £35, complete in a case with numerous accessories and a computer coupled camera for optional use in place of the eyepiece. And this LCD one with measuring scale displaying spores below only cost a quarter of that. Not professional standard...

Flaxton wrote:I often identify this species not by the blue on the cap which can be non existent but by the very hairy stem which your photo shows well.
Mal

Thanks Mal
I will remember this if I find it again it also said that the base of the stipe can have a blue ting to it

Best Wishes
Sheila

. . . rather difficult genus to get to grips with . . . Sheila It certainly is Even with a microscope and the literature it can be difficult; plus the best literature - two volumes with a total of over 900 pages - can be rather daunting in itself: https://www.amazon.com/Mycenas-Northern-Hemisphere-...

Thank you for your identification and helpful information it is good to know it is not typical but when I have looked it up in Collins book I see it can sometimes have blue on the cap and at the base of the stipe also more frequent in coniferous habitat rather I difficult genus to get to grips with....