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Mushrooms / Toadstools

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Thanks @steephill :)
    Nice to have a name - although I'll never remember it!
    I don't really care for mushrooms, so it's unlikely I'd ever eat them anyway  ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    edited October 2020
    I posted this on LG's "what is it" thread, when I found that I had some bird's nest fungi as well:



    Tiny and truly amazing.   :)

    We also have quite a few patches of these enormous beasties, with 15-20cm wide cups:



    No idea what they are.


    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Those first ones are extraordinary @Liriodendron :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    edited October 2020
    The birds nest one is lovely. The second one looks like honey fungus though. If you can cut one of them free as low on the stem as possible check to see if there is a skirt on the stem near the cap.
  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 5,291
    Most fungi are other-worldly, but that Bird’s nest one must take the prize - wow! 
    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    I didn't know honey fungus got that big, @steephill... and it's growing next to a long-dead stump, when I thought it needed living trees to feed on?  I do hope it's not HF.  I pulled one up and it looks like this:


    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • Old tree stump covered by these recently - anyone know what they are?

  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    The honey fungus has an average cap size of 15cm and lives on both live and dead wood. It looks like your specimen has the remains of the stem ring so I would say yes it is honey fungus. I would get it checked by a local expert though, do you have a local natural history society or maybe a tree surgeon? Look for the characteristic black bootlace threads on the affected stumps.
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    edited October 2020
    Yes, @steephill - I've had a good look on the Net and I fear you're right...  :s

    That clump of toadstools is about 2 metres from the rowan tree which blew down in the summer.  It had rather sparse foliage this year, and though I didn't find any evidence of honey fungus in the stump, I wasn't looking for it.   :/

    Tomorrow I'll dig up the little Acer I planted a few weeks ago, clean off the roots and replant it as far away as possible.  I'm trying to see this as an opportunity rather than a catastrophe, because this is a "new to me" garden which was mostly grass until very recently, so I can plan things differently.  This year I grew my veg in the front garden, quite near the fungus clump - maybe I can get away with that on a regular basis...   :)

    Edited to say:  I don't know if the local tree surgeon would recognise honey fungus but I can but ask.
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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