Spotted in the Lammermuir hills a couple of weeks agoSoma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality.
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Turkey Tail. What a lovely description!-------------------
Sakvatore, the shaggy parasol is edible, but can cause stomach upsetsin some people. Don't eat it raw.As it happens, by the time I'd had put the photo on flickr, had its id confirmed and returned next day to where I'd seen it, I was too late - someone else had harvested it. Whether I would have dared to eat it (i.e. trust what I'd been told on the internet), I don't know.
Fascinating. How many modern banks and financial institutions are run by people who take hallucinogenic mushrooms?Spotted in the Lammermuir hills a couple of weeks agoSoma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Gordon_Wasson
Fascinating. How many modern banks and financial institutions are run by people who take hallucinogenic mushrooms?Spotted in the Lammermuir hills a couple of weeks agoSoma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Gordon_Wasson
Once used for sharpening razor blades (it's other name is razor strop!) and as kindle for starting fires. Otzi the 5,000 year old mummified man found in the Alps was carrying this.
OMG! If I show this to my Mario he will be so jealous. It has been a bad year for porcini in Kent, Surrey and Sussex and he is now banned from foraging in his ancestral woods (Epping Forest). You get fined if they catch you picking there, now. He blames the Poles. And I expect they blame the Italians.
Know idea what these chaps are:Apparently, according to my resident expert, they are more likely to be coprinus mycaceous or glistening ink caps because sulphur tufts are yellow and grow in tufts, these look more brown and look to have a more trooping habit. They also look to have a reddish patch on the top of the cap, which sulphur tufts don't have.
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/NrSteyning.jpg)
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8045/8099926576_d07be4c1bc_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner/8099926576/)And this is Mycenae inclinata, normally found on oak or sweet chestnut. Apparently.
Here are some North Downs ones from the weekend. Not photographically spectacular, and probably not mycologically spectacular either!Magpie ink cap - Coprinus picaceus
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/funguses_1.jpg)
This is lacaria amethystea, the Amethyst Deceiver.
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/funguses_5.jpg)
This is xerula radicata, the Rooting Shank.
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All the usual suspects were looking forlorn and bedraggled after last week's rain, but this one seems to be thriving in the wet conditions.
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Oops, only just picked up David's comment. Thank you!
All taken with natural light. I very rarely use flash as it tends to look false no matter what you do with it. I do have ring flash available but don't like the effect. So I kind of look for fungi with nice lighting, then line up a good composition and then take the picture, always bearing in mind what the final result will look like.
Shaggy ink cap, at about aperfect point for eating. Very tasty too.
It's that time of year againOne of the wider models in the Brooks range...
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I'm guessing this is a fungus.
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IMG_7678_01 (https://flic.kr/p/MXjbLM) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
A few from today in Dalmunzie
Candlewick fungus?Yes, I think so.
Some cracking photos well done :thumbsup:
It's that time of year again.
It's that time of year again.
I thought exactly that when I looked at the drying green this evening :)
It's that time of year again.
I thought exactly that when I looked at the drying green this evening :)
Also, you're late this year: https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=52196.msg1920895#msg1920895
;)
BTW Lars and Monica send their best wishes (soz - it's taken me over a year to pass them on).
The one in the previous post looks like a penny bun.
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Citoyen, your red 'tomato' will probably not be a fly agaric. The spots are actually scales, remnants of the characteristic veil that amanitins burst out of as they mature (though they occasionally wash clean). It amy be a Sickener, but I'd need a better look. The blue-turning bolete looks like Erythropus from the colour of the uncut flesh
Is that first one the one that makes tinder and razor strops? I've for gotten the name!
Birch polypore, or razor stropThanks
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You have a really nasty one there, Citoyen: Amanita pantherina, panther cap. That one's a killer
Birch polypore, or razor strop
Taken yesterday.
These were quite big.
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IMG_7957_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2kGTCax) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Peter, maybe Amanda Staveley is more like a bitter bolete, which leaves a nasty taste in the mouth...
Inkcap and Scarlet Loughboriensis Horizontalis.
Looks amazingly like a piece of popcorn!
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IMG_8904_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2mmpWuN) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Artist's bracket. Everything below it is covered in brown dust (spores)
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and with a goalkeeper's hand for scale
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The top of the tree looked healthy, with plenty of leaves, but the lower branches had all broken off, and the stumps of the branches looked hollow. The horizontal lines on the fungus are annual growth ridges.
big clump of hi-vis fungi on day 4 of the KAW
Fly agaric?
Fly agaric?
Yes
I think this a blusher <i>amanita rubescens</i>
I think this a blusher <i>amanita rubescens</i>
It's petals(? leaves?) are so precisely shaped, it looks as if they've been cut out by machine. Together with the colour, it makes it look like a form of candy.
Never seen one of these before. According to woodlandtrust.co.uk it's fairly common in England and is also found in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland, particularly in East Lothian."
Also~: "The Native American Blackfoot Confederacy called collared earthstars ka-ka-toos – meaning 'fallen stars' – and believed them to be indicators of supernatural events."
Collared Earthstar
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An oyster mushroom, I think. As with the artist's bracket, the lower half of the tree looked dead, with no leaves, but the upper branches appeared healthy.
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