Fungi 2012

[Maggi Young]

Could somebody id this for me please.

 Crumbs! That looks lke a fungus suffering with an attack of fungus........

[ronm]

Another long shot I know as we don't seem to have many fungi fanciers on the Forum, but can anyone ID these for me please. 

[Hoy]

Another long shot I know as we don't seem to have many fungi fanciers on the Forum, but can anyone ID these for me please. 

Does it look like this: http://www.hexeringen.org/ny_side_1.htm

Hygrocybe phaeococcinea ??

[ronm]

Great call Hoy! It must be a Hygrocybe sp. And for me that is well close enough. Thanks 

[ruweiss]

We found this enormous fungus at a slope in the Ligurian Alps this year in June
and would be grateful for identification by the experts.

[Hans J]

Rudi ,

it is a "Riesenbovist" :

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riesenbovist

I have also sometimes found this kind of fungi in mountains

Hans

[Olga Bondareva]

Don't know the name. A little fungi grown in the grass of my lawn.

[Hoy]

We found this enormous fungus at a slope in the Ligurian Alps this year in June
and would be grateful for identification by the experts.

I think it is Handkea utriformis (syn Lycoperdon utriforme, Calvatia utriformis) hasenbovist und nicht riesenbovist!

[Hans J]

Hoy ,

after my books is Handkea much smaller :
http://www.pilzlexikon.eu/hasen-staeubling.html

  but I'm far away to be a expert

Rudi : hast Du gemessen wie groß der Pilz war ?

[Maggi Young]

We found this enormous fungus at a slope in the Ligurian Alps this year in June
and would be grateful for identification by the experts.

In English this fungi is called a Giant Puffball - Calvatia gigantea

Marvelous things - the young ones look like someone has left bread dough to rise and then they look a bit like brains, decaying to a fairly messy end!  When they are young and pure white all the way through, they are edible.

[Ulla Hansson]

They are in my opinion, not very good. They feel a bit of foam to cut in. But cool to see in nature.

[Anthony Darby]

I've seen giant puff balls on an old manure heap near Dunblane. Several, each over 20 cm in diameter! I've eaten the smaller puff balls. Tastes very like omelette.

[Olga Bondareva]

When they are young

They feel a bit of foam

That means they are not young Ulla. When they are young they are dense and elastic. We found a big one up to 30 cm in my childhood. Very tasty fried with onions and fragrant sunflower oil. 

[Ulla Hansson]

Olga, your description of the texture of the fungus is better than mine. The fungi that I've eaten has been completely white straight through.

[Hoy]

Hoy ,

after my books is Handkea much smaller :
http://www.pilzlexikon.eu/hasen-staeubling.html

  but I'm far away to be a expert

Rudi : hast Du gemessen wie groß der Pilz war ?

I'm no expert either but I think Handkea utriformis can reach 25cm across.

In English this fungi is called a Giant Puffball - Calvatia gigantea

Marvelous things - the young ones look like someone has left bread dough to rise and then they look a bit like brains, decaying to a fairly messy end!  When they are young and pure white all the way through, they are edible.

Maggi, Calvatia gigantea don't have the reticulate skin like this, as far as I know.