Mushroom Diary

Mushroom hunting & foraging. Lover of our countryside, woodland, good beer & food. Author of Bloomsbury's Pocket Guide to Mushrooms &

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@Baldbirder1 @Love_plants @BritMycolSoc @KentFieldClub I think you may be right there with ID. Nice find 👍

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@SE22mum Honey Fungus (Armillaria mellea) 👌

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@MoiraBenson @SE22mum They do like growing in LA age groups don’t they? 😁

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Great stuff! Mushroom in the Wild Playing Keyboard https://t.co/w74tVI4nqf via @YouTube

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@VickiMarsland That’ll be a confirmed ‘yes’. What a great find ✊

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40% of the UK's ancient woodlands are vanishing before our eyes. Now, we have one golden opportunity to save these Forgotten Forests. The English and Scottish Governments must put plans in place to rescue them, before it's too late. #ForgottenForests https://t.co/vXcrOnH2yo

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40% of the UK's ancient woodlands are vanishing before our eyes. Now, we have one golden opportunity to save these Forgotten Forests. The English and Scottish Governments must put plans in place to rescue them, before it's too late. #ForgottenForests https://t.co/7uiQiJN6Ne

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@hutton112329 No probs. The caps didn’t look like Armillaria and they grow all over dead wood/stumps & logs. Dead roots underground also. But really hard to tell as they were so old.

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@elonmusk Right o. I’ll start tomorrow 😁

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Nature has to be at the heart of upcoming planning reforms.

I've written to my MP. You can too. https://t.co/JfkwImBsVU

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@georgie_lawson Hmm. My best guess, I would say it’s a very old/dying Giant Polypore (Meripilus giganteus). See my post on it here:
https://t.co/9TlEUzbZDE

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@NigelWi51585735 @FantasticFungi @WildFoodUK I would say so, yes. But can’t be 100% sure without seeing the gills and stem in detail. Cap looks spot on though.

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@philjo61 I think white stem is what we’re looking for. But they don’t look like they have them

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@philjo61 Not 100% sure. Do you have pics of the stem and gills in detail?

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@bigdaddysco Sorry to report. It’s a Yellow Stainer. Can cause gastric upset/sickness: https://t.co/LIhIOme7oG

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@philjo61 Red!? That’s got me confused. I was thinking the Shaggy Ink Cap (Coprinus comatus) at the end of its life. All gills dissolving into inky liquid, spreading the spores. However, the cap can have browny/pinkish colouring on the less shaggy areas as it ages just before this happens.

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@nidget13 Scales could have been washed off.

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@potterandy @johnmushroom Frosty Funnel. I can’t be sure

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@potterandy @johnmushroom Hey. Sorry Andrew. Looks like you didn’t have an answer for this and I’ve been away. It’s difficult, I admit. But one of the Clitocybes. Too big to be the Fragrant Funnel and the other species (which I’ve seen once before) I’ve forgotten the name and traits. 😩