[lagerstarfish]

This is going  , but I can't believe that article appeared on the BBC website. It reads like it was written by an 11 year old. And as for starting a sentence with the word "and".....

[slackline]

An amethyst deceiver mushroom (Laccaria amethystina).

Photographed on the National Trust estate at Longshaw in Derbyshire.

Not mine, but just found this on flickr

[Iesu]

i'm actually blushing

[SA Chris]

Found these growing from the bottom of a tomato pot.

Look like oysters, can anyone confirm?





There's a hole in the the underside of one, bottom left of bottom pic, is it going to be wormy?

Thanks

[Bonjoy]

Yes, those are Oyster Mushrooms. To be honest they look a bit too old and waterlogged to make good eating, sorry.

[SA Chris]

Cheers, a shame they are a bit mashed as I only saw they were there after I had given the pots a good watering moved pots, and squashed them a bit. Will keep an eye on them and hopefully try and catch them when they are a bit fresher if any more grow.

Are they hard to dry out? Or not worth it.

[Bonjoy]

If they are fairly fresh and young it could be worth leaving for a day or two to dry.

[Houdini]

An amethyst deceiver mushroom (Laccaria amethystina).

Photographed on the National Trust estate at Longshaw in Derbyshire.

Not mine, but just found this on flickr

That's one sexual shroom

[Houdini]

None too sure what these are?  Don't think they're steinpilze?



Regardless, any suggestions on good ways to eat them?  Meat free if poss.  Thanks in advance.

[BB]

Had a session foraging for fungi in the Saveranke forest last weekend and there were loads about. Couldn't find any of the easily identifiable edible ones though. Any help with identification of any of the below would be nice.

Magpie inkcap?


common puffball?


Parasol?


Destroying Angel?


Earthball?


Amethyst Deceiver?


No idea.


?


?


?

[JamieG]

I think this one might be the notorious death cap. Not 100% sure though. I definitely wouldn't eat it.



Incidentally in the Guardian today (G2 section), there was a guide to mushroom foraging.

[Adam Lincoln]

?

Chantrelle.

[Sloper]

More likely a false chantrelle or a type of clitocybe.

As for the death cap my money would be on a panther cap but you're right it's an aminat and not for the table.

Amethyst deceiver is spot on, helped by the colour but also look for widely spaced decurrent gills.

[BB]

Thanks Guys,

We decided that the yellow ones probably weren't Chanterelles as they weren't fluted enough and they were a bit sticky on top.

It's a bit more obvious in a bigger photo.

[Iesu]

those definitely aren't chanterelles - they should have a totally wrinkled margin, kind of fluted - not flat with a dimple in the middle.

supposedly common under conifers but i've only ever found them on n facing wooded slopes under birch trees.

bring on the hunt!

[Nigel]

Where's Bonjoy? I'll guess at Saffron Milkcap, for a laugh. The Boy will know.

[Andy Harris]

Chanterelles have primitive gills, a bit more like a vascular forearm than conventional symetrical gills. In addition they have irregular margins which this does not. Could be a milk cap but there are a no of orange variants so you'd need to know if it exuded milk when broken. Personally I'd go for a false chanterelle

The common puffball is most likely common but could be a pedicel puffball.

The deathcap is a panther cap.

The bottom piccy looks like a spiny puffball.

Nothing tasty here but amethyst deceivers look great in salads. Hoping for a bumper hall of ceps, chanterelles and pied de mouton tomorrow. Yummy!

[Sloper]

We agree on two, how's fatherhood going, have you founf the volume control yet?

[grumpycrumpy]

I saw some very nice fly agaric at the far right of Millstone the other evening ..... Anyone got a reindeer handy so that I can process them ? .....

[Steve R]

There were/are some whopping prime specimen's of (pretty sure) fly agaric just by Ju Ju club at Caley yesterday.  Left them be as I don't trust my ability to confirm ID and prepare without spannering my guts/organs!

[Bonjoy]

Had a session foraging for fungi in the Saveranke forest last weekend and there were loads about. Couldn't find any of the easily identifiable edible ones though. Any help with identification of any of the below would be nice.

Magpie inkcap? Correct


common puffball? Correct


Parasol? Correct family, but a poisonous rather than edible one i.e a Lepiota rather than a Macrolepiota


Destroying Angel? No volva and not pure enough white, so prob not Destroying Angel. hard to tell from pic but looks like an Agaricus


Earthball? Correct


Amethyst Deceiver? Correct


No idea. hard to tell from pic, possibly a young Blusher


? False Chanterelle


? Blusher


? Puffball

[fried]

Anyone care to identify this crop of Bolets. The first one I'm sure is Cepes de bordeaux. Don't want any boletus amer in my omelette!

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<img src="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28761504@N06/5047603666/"/>
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All were found in Fontainebleau

Thanks in advance and apologies for the poor quality photos and not being able to understand how to display them properly.

[slackline]

Thanks in advance and apologies for the poor quality photos and not being able to understand how to display them properly.

Use the "Share this" button above each picture, choose BBCode and the size of the image you want it displayed as.  All explained here (or on the Flickr site itself somewhere)

[fried]

Thanks!

032 by lemaitre_sophie, on Flickr

031 by lemaitre_sophie, on Flickr

035 by lemaitre_sophie, on Flickr

036 by lemaitre_sophie, on Flickr

[wintermute]

Those in the top photo are ceps, second are bay boletes. Both very tasty.
Don't know about the bottom two i'm afraid.