Mushrooming

[PHCgull]

Couple of amethyst deceivers in there... unmistakeable (despite the name)

 

[vegster]

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Absolutely marvellous Cauliflower Fungus scenes today!

That's a proper eating mushroom, had a good few of these Parasols this autumn.

 

[razer]

These were a nice find in the golf course car park week. About a dozen decent size ones dotted around,

 

[razer]

View attachment 189651That's a proper eating mushroom, had a good few of these Parasols this autumn.

I played Royal Liverpool golf course around this time last and they were everywhere. It wouldn't have felt right stuffing a load of them in my golf bag on such a posh course.

 

[MTSeagulls]

Anyone know what this might be on a log in our garden. Temperatures are 30+ all year but this is in shade for most of the day.

 

[vegster]

I played Royal Liverpool golf course around this time last and they were everywhere. It wouldn't have felt right stuffing a load of them in my golf bag on such a posh course.

I would have taken half a dozen. Too good to miss.

 

[1066familyman]

View attachment 189651That's a proper eating mushroom, had a good few of these Parasols this autumn.

Any Shaggy ones?

You'll know the difference the minute you cut them, as the Shaggy ones turn a reddish brown. They taste a bit nicer too!

 

[1066familyman]

Anyone know what this might be on a log in our garden. Temperatures are 30+ all year but this is in shade for most of the day.View attachment 189655

It's a bracket fungus in the 'Turkey Tail' family as far as I can tell. Don't ask me which exact one though.

 

[1066familyman]

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Here's a pic of some 'Turkey Tails' I took at the weekend for example. Again, don't ask me which exact one though.

 

[MTSeagulls]

It's a bracket fungus in the 'Turkey Tail' family as far as I can tell. Don't ask me which exact one though.

Great thanks

 

[vegster]

Any Shaggy ones?

You'll know the difference the minute you cut them, as the Shaggy ones turn a reddish brown. They taste a bit nicer too!

Every one of the small patches I found were the standard Parasols...found one patch the had about 15 to 20 developing, went back 2 days later and it was like they never existed ...all gone, stripes and all

 

[North of Robertsbridge]

These were a nice find in the golf course car park week. About a dozen decent size ones dotted around,

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Look like Bay Boletes, and in good condition. Decent eating, at least the caps

Edited to add - does the spongey underside of the cap bruise blue when pressed or cut? Easy way to identify bays

 

[1066familyman]

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A pasta sauce, without the pasta!

Cauliflower fungus is very pasta like in texture

 

[razer]

Look like Bay Boletes, and in good condition. Decent eating, at least the caps

Edited to add - does the spongey underside of the cap bruise blue when pressed or cut? Easy way to identify bays

They're porcinis (ceps, penny buns). Confirmed by my Swedish DIL who has been picking them since she was a kid.

 

[North of Robertsbridge]

They're porcinis (ceps, penny buns). Confirmed by my Swedish DIL who has been picking them since she was a kid.

Probably not, with striping like that on the stipe (confirmed by my Swedish-born wife)

Although porcini in Italy is used to refer to multiple types of bolete, not just the cep

We collect ceps and a half dozen other boletes every week at this time of year

 

[North of Robertsbridge]

Here's a cep (boletus edulis) I picked, notice the smooth stipe without darker striations

 

[1066familyman]

Regarding confusing Bay Bolete work the Penny Bun.... This is this morning's finds.

Thoughts?

I confess that I sometimes struggle to tell some Boletes apart.

 

[1066familyman]

No mistaking this Horse Mushroom though, due to the sheer size. It also doesn't stain yellow when running my thing nail across the cap.

Better if it was fresher, with nice rose pink gills, but this one is still fresh enough for eating.

 

[North of Robertsbridge]

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Regarding confusing Bay Bolete work the Penny Bun.... This is this morning's finds.

Thoughts?

I confess that I sometimes struggle to tell some Boletes apart.

A cep will always have the typical "club foot", rather than a straight stem. The example on the left of the pic has the colouring on its stem that I would associate with bay or brown birch boletes. You can easily tell a bay bolete by pressing the underside of the cap. If it bruises blue/purple, that indicates a bay. In general avoid mushrooms with red colouring, although even then there are exceptions like red cracking boletes, which grow in our garden. Those are actually edible (but not particularly exciting).

There are probably 80+ types of bolete in the UK. As a rule, we stick to those we can readily find and identify - ceps, bay and birch, slippery Jacks, Jersey cow boletes

 

[Blue3]

Can I have some help to id these please. They've just randomly come up in one of my pots that has a tomato plant in. Largest one is slightly bigger than 1p.

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This is I think a fungi called Tubariaceae part of the Taxonomic family of fungi many of which are very poisonous to touch or ingest