Fungi 2010

[Graham Catlow]

Had a bit of an invasion. I think the beech logs probably have something to do with them.

Graham

Graham we get those in hundreds around the stump of an old apple we had cut down. After a couple of days we find they disintegrate into a mass of slime before disappearing.

Hi Tony,
They are now black and shriveling. I think they will be slime by the morning. As yours appear around your apple stump they must be connected to rotting trees.

[Olga Bondareva]

Robin, Cliff, Cohan,
Thank you!

Ian
They are edible until they are white inside. But it could be dangerous to inhale their puff.

Graham
Your mushrooms look very impressive and… beautiful. I don’t think you have to do anything with them. Such kind of fungi grows on died wood not on leaving.

[Olga Bondareva]

Pas de trois. 

[Olga Bondareva]

The last harvest

[Pascal B]

Although not in my garden, I nevertheless thought it was interesting to post, a fungus that seems to come straight from the land of the Smurfs..... It photographed it at 2000 meter altitude in Taiwan growing in a coniferous forest

[Tony Willis]

Had a bit of an invasion. I think the beech logs probably have something to do with them.

Graham

Graham we get those in hundreds around the stump of an old apple we had cut down. After a couple of days we find they disintegrate into a mass of slime before disappearing.

Hi Tony,
They are now black and shriveling. I think they will be slime by the morning. As yours appear around your apple stump they must be connected to rotting trees.

Managed to find a picture of mine from last year.There were even more this year but they do not seem a problem and only last a few days

[Lesley Cox]

Pas de trois. 

Set to Tchaikovsky?

[Stephenb]

We're having a mild spell after a very cold period with sub-zero temperatures day and night over several days. This doesn't affect the Winter Chantarelles (today's haul pictured) which are now at their peak although not as numerous as normal. I even found a few Chantarelles and Hedgehog fungi.

Most of these will be dried for use during the winter.

[gote]

Puffballs are quite good. I have never thought about confusing them with the deadly ones - I find them so different in surface texture -  but anyway if they are solid inside they are all right. I slice them thinly and fry in butter to a kind of chips.

Olga. You are the queen of photographers!

This was another bad season for fungi in my place - perhaps the boars took a lot.

Cheers
Göte

[TheOnionMan]

These big yellow fungi are cropping up in the garden under a large white spruce, they are about 5-6" across (12.5-15 cm).  I sometimes find them ripped up or broken apart, presumably from squirrels.

[Hans J]

Here is a pic of the true Tuber magnatum .....the most expensiv of all truffes ( this fungi comes from Piemont /Italy )

[FrazerHenderson]

see
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=6201.0
for details about the new Hygrocybe identification guide - simply stunning.

[Melvyn Jope]

A month ago in Corfu I photographed a few fungi species, I have been told by a Greek friend that the first is  Lepiota griseovirens, the next is Tremella mesenterica but no clues on the last two. Can any mycologists out there identify them?

[Stephenb]

These big yellow fungi are cropping up in the garden under a large white spruce, they are about 5-6" across (12.5-15 cm).  I sometimes find them ripped up or broken apart, presumably from squirrels.

Looks like an Amanita species, Mark (judging by the ring which is falling off of this specimen, the warts on the cap and the gills showing through on the edge of the cap). There's actually a yellow form of the familiar red and white Fly Agaric.