A nice bonus this morning when I found these, shaggy ink caps. They are soup now and ready to be taken home tomorrow to be blended. They go off quickly so didn't want an inky mess in the fridge overnight.
See my request the other day re ID about my doubts on lions mane fungi. I sent an email and pictures to Nature Scotland to request an opinion on it being the pom pom fungi and indeed Skandi is right. Thank you. They got back to me today, see below.
'Hello Uff,
Given the pine substrate and the general fuzzy pom-pom appearance, I think you may be right with your identification of Postia ptychogaster.
The young ones can often exude guttation droplets if that helps with identification!
Postia ptychogaster does seem to be fairly rare, none of my books even mentions it! Good excuse to buy another fungi book.
My clouded agaric have started to show in the garden so I should be having mushrooms on toast next week. It is listed as poisonous because about 1 in 5 people experience "gastric distress" if they eat it but so far I have been OK.
I've just sent photographs, coordinations and date of pics to Highland Records dept asking for an ID and for the sighting to be put on record. It's based in Inverness which is about an hour away from where I found the specimens. I feel quite pleased about spotting it.
Oh well if you aren't around next weekend steephill then we will know you will have taken a nasty reaction to it. Is this one below? I saw masses of them last week and might have them in the woodland at the side of me.
As a matter of interest I saw in excess of 100 angels wings, pleurocybella porrigens. Only seen them once before so to see so many in the same woodland as pom pom it was a special day.
Lovely finds Ante1, thank you for showing them to us. I enjoy seeing other's finds.
I had a reply from the botanical records group up in Inverness who thanked me for reporting it and... 'I sent the pics to our fungus guru, Uff, and he has confirmed the ID saying ‘It is very distinctive’. It is not recorded on NBN Atlas from near NN18, and is quite sparse on the west generally.'
I've found it before just outside of Aberdeen, but I couldn't identify it at the time, as it isn't in my British books either. But it is in the Danish book I have I think it's much more common here since I found several today while out picking Boletus and blewits.
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'Hello Uff,
Given the pine substrate and the general fuzzy pom-pom appearance, I think you may be right with your identification of Postia ptychogaster. The young ones can often exude guttation droplets if that helps with identification!
It is quite an uncommon species, with only 381 records in UK https://species.nbnatlas.org/species/NHMSYS0001494727 so if you can verify the record with a local fungus group https://sites.google.com/site/scottishfungi/local-groups (note the Highland fungus group has mostly dissolved) it would be very good to get your find on the map. I am unfortunately unable to verify records.
Great find, and thanks for sharing,
Kat'
Oh well if you aren't around next weekend steephill then we will know you will have taken a nasty reaction to it. Is this one below? I saw masses of them last week and might have them in the woodland at the side of me.
As a matter of interest I saw in excess of 100 angels wings, pleurocybella porrigens. Only seen them once before so to see so many in the same woodland as pom pom it was a special day.
I had a reply from the botanical records group up in Inverness who thanked me for reporting it and...
'I sent the pics to our fungus guru, Uff, and he has confirmed the ID saying ‘It is very distinctive’. It is not recorded on NBN Atlas from near NN18, and is quite sparse on the west generally.'
I'm so pleased to have found something so rare.
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Autumn colours or Fungi Finds?
The wee fungi under the oak bonsai has now developed so has anyone any idea what it might be please?