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Help to identify a mushroom in our garden

Steve 596Steve 596 Posts: 3
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would anyone be able to identify these mushrooms we’ve found in our garden please? We need to know because we have recently and inexplicably lost a dog and we’ve found these.
Thanks

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  • Steve 596Steve 596 Posts: 3
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Afraid it really isn’t possible to identify any but a very few fungi from a photo ... things like the gills, stipe, veil and spore colours are needed. You’d be better to consult a mycologists’ website. Sorry 😐 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Knuxs7Knuxs7 Posts: 19
    Sorry to hear about your dog OP. Wow that's actually scary if the mushroom is poisonous . I know out in the "wild" you can come across them, but not in your own home garden. Hope someone can identify it for you.

  • Hampshire HogHampshire Hog Posts: 330
    You could try this site has lists of edible and poisonous mushrooms and fungi but this really is a specialist area as Dove has already said.

    http://www.wildfooduk.com/mushroom-guides
    "A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
  • treehugger80treehugger80 Posts: 1,923
    you need a photo of under the mushroom (its gills) for a better ID,

    but looking at that (and teaching wild food and foraging as part of my day job), i'd say its none of the really poisonous ones (death cap, destroying angel, panther cap etc) might give humans and dogs a bit of a bad belly but nothing worse.

    bad mushrooms kill slowly (4 to 6 weeks usually) by destroying the liver and kidneys, so it would be obvious to a vet that something like that was happening.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    treehugger80 said:
    you need a photo of under the mushroom (its gills) for a better ID,

    but looking at that (and teaching wild food and foraging as part of my day job), i'd say its none of the really poisonous ones (death cap, destroying angel, panther cap etc) might give humans and dogs a bit of a bad belly but nothing worse.

    bad mushrooms kill slowly (4 to 6 weeks usually) by destroying the liver and kidneys, so it would be obvious to a vet that something like that was happening.
    Has the vet done a post mortem?  

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Steve 596Steve 596 Posts: 3
    Hi everyone and thanks for the responses. We are awaiting the post mortem results but are looking at everything in the garden in the meantime as we have another dog and we want to keep her safe. We’ve blocked off most of the garden for the moment just to be safe though. 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I hope the results come through quickly and aren’t worrying regarding your other dog. We’ve just lost a family pet (old age) and it’s a sad time. 😢

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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