Mushrooming

[vegster]

UK Poetry Day today.
UK Fungus day on Saturday.
With the absence of any Poetry thread on here, I'm going to go for it and unleash a little something I wrote recently. Apologies in advance. [emoji38]



Some Boletus
Can be bombastic
All tubes and bulbous bases
Bruising bright and lurid.

Sparassis can Spruce up
A Coniferous conurbation
Always delightfully delicious
Delicate debris frustration .

Lepiota leap
Like parasols sprung to action
Shielding little folk
From imminent precipitation.

Puffballs huff
And Puffballs puff
But even one Giant Puffball
Can prove too much!

Roses are red
Blewitts aren't blue
Field or wood
I love you.

Hedgehogs hiding
Spines inverted
No mistaking
This unique arrangement.

Beefstakes dripping
Blood pulsing
Through mighty Oaks
Embellishing and adorning.

Trumpet calls
Horns a plenty
Sounding long into
Winter's darkest days.

Ink caps drip justice
Whilst others glisten
And drinkers
Best listen.

Got any more pictures of mushrooms ?

 

[1066familyman]

Got any more pictures of mushrooms ?

You barsteward

 

[Guinness Boy]

I thought this mushrooming thread was some sort of sex activity ??That I had never heard of !

Just make sure you never confuse mushrooming, teabagging and a Boston Pancake or you'll end up filling your beloved's face with the dry poo hanging from your balls

 

[Brok]

Went to my favourite mushroom field this morning, all fenced off for HS2 works. Nobody around, so I slipped under the fence and picked these little beauties.
There are hundreds at the moment, it was hard to walk without stepping on them.

 

[vegster]

Bit too windy for fishing so tramped out and around our holiday home for the week in Cornwall and found these monsters....absolutely huge, pretty unedible and loads of them.... I have learned that if there are tons of a particular Mushroom growing somewhere, they are invariably inedible.

Giant Funnels.....don't thank me.

 

[Brok]

Walked through here yesterday...



...and found these. I have no idea what any of them are. Any ideas?

 

[1066familyman]

Walked through here yesterday...

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...and found these. I have no idea what any of them are. Any ideas?

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Pic 1 and 3 I think are Sulphur Tufts. Pic 1 being older specimens than pic 3.

Pic 4 old Honey Fungus (especially is there's a tree stump under those leaves).

Pic 5 possibly Pluteolus aleuriatus


Always best to try to get pics from all angles if possible for id purposes.

All my above guesses could easily be wrong. I'll have a fish around on pic 2 as that's now bugging me.

 

[1066familyman]

Pic 2 possibly an Inocybe of some sort due to the splitting of the cap like that. Possibly Inocybe fastigiata

 

[Fungus]

Found these beauties yesterday. The puff-balls (?) were on a dung-heap, and as big as a size 5 football.

 

[1066familyman]

Found these beauties yesterday. The puff-balls (?) were on a dung-heap, and as big as a size 5 football.

Did you eat the Parasol?

 

[Fungus]

Did you eat the Parasol?

No, we're too scared to touch any mushrooms in the wild! Happy to leave them for others to admire.

 

[1066familyman]

No, we're too scared to touch any mushrooms in the wild! Happy to leave them for others to admire.

You can't really go wrong with Parasols and Shaggy Parasols. They look like nothing else really, due to their size. Some small ones in that family (Lepiota) are edibility unknown and one is poisonous, possibly deadly, but they are much much smaller than the Parasol and Shaggy Parasol.

Edit: I should add that you are wise not to eat anything if you don't feel confident 100% id ing it. It's a golden rule really.

 

[Brok]

Found this, this morning. I believe it's an Amanita ponderosa. Not confident enough to try it for dinner, although it is very tempting.

 

[Brok]

Parasol. 10 inches, enough for two days.

 

[Fungus]

Had a lovely walk in the woods this morning, and these pictures don't cover the half of it.

Anyone know what these beauties are?

(Think I've got the hang of inserting pictures inline, rather than as attachments.

 

[Guinness Boy]

10 inches, enough for two days.

As the Actress said to the Bishop.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Just make sure you never confuse mushrooming, teabagging and a Boston Pancake or you'll end up filling your beloved's face with the dry poo hanging from your balls

A bit like playing soggy biscuit
Common on submarines I hear.

 

[Fungus]

Is it a bad sign when you start dreaming about mushrooms? I worry I'm getting a bit obsessed. I'll only add three of yesterday's finds...

The first one is Orange Pore Fungus, and the first UK sighting was here in Cornwall in 2012. So, pretty rare. Tiny and easily overlooked, but beautiful up close.

 

[BrightonCottager]

Can anyone identify these please (on Ruislip Common, near the Lido @AmexRuislip )? Was tempted to remove and make a pot of tea from them.

 

[schmunk]

Can anyone identify these please (on Ruislip Common, near the Lido @AmexRuislip )? Was tempted to remove and make a pot of tea from them.

Ah yes, good old Excruciating Death Bastards.



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