Fungi 2013

[Natalia]

Colleagues, mushrooms are not asleep - start the season

Gyromitra gigas



Sarcosoma globosum

[Armin]

Sarcosoma globosum - ytd never saw or found any.
Just learned from web pages it is a very rare species in middle of Europe.
Thanks for posting.

[Carlo]

I have a soft spot for fungi...and think them very photogenic. Thanks for the pictures!

[Natalia]

Armin, this year Sarcosoma Globosum very large amount ... I was surprised to read that this fungus fruiting once every 5-8 years .

[Armin]

Natalia,
only fruiting every 5-8 years... Hm, this would explain why it is so rare to find.

[Hoy]

I haven't picked any edible mushrooms yet but the other day I found some very colourful orange ones - but they were very small. When I looked I also found some brown ones. Firstly I assumed they were the same species but it is two different ones but with a very special ecology. Although the mycelium is in the ground many places they fructify only when an elk (moose) has peed there during the winter! Typically you find the fungi when the snow melts. The orange one is Byssonectria terrestris and the brown one is Pseudombrophila guldeniae. They do have Norwegian names but I don't know if they have any English?

[ArnoldT]

Here's one I found on the south shore of MA, just 30 miles from Boston.

ID?

[ArnoldT]

A second small forest.

[Oron Peri]

Here's one I found on the south shore of MA, just 30 miles from Boston.

ID?

Amanita flavoconia

[ArnoldT]

Oron:

thanks,

[Olga Bondareva]

Food for gnomes (Crucibulum laeve & Tubifera ferruginosa)

[Natalia]

One more edible mushroom - Stropharia aeruginosa

[Maggi Young]

One more edible mushroom - Stropharia aeruginosa

If you say it is edible, Natalia, I believe you - but verdigris not look very tasty!   

[Natalia]

Yes, Maggi, the fungus looks terrible - I thought for a long time that this mushroom - kind of fly-agaric
But with the experts say - a mushroom is edible.

[Peter Maguire]

Can anyone help with the identification of this fungus - I've run out of ideas.
The photo was taken a few weeks ago in the RSPB Loch Garten reserve when I was on Speyside for the discussion weekend. The fruiting bodies were growing on a pile of felled logs that had obviously been there some time, presumably Pinus sylvestris, and were up to 7-8mm across. My first thought was perhaps Coral Spot Fungus (Nectria cinnabaria), but the fruiting bodies are slightly larger than one would expect for this species and it is rare on conifers. I did consider Olga's Tubifera ferruginosa, but it doesn't really look much like that either.

Any suggestions gratefully received.