Whoppa mushroom

Keith, do you cut out the maggot infested areas or are you one to just savour the good protein? 

thats the great thing about the Spring edibles like St Georges and the Morchella spp - they are pretty much maggot free!

thats a very unusual "horse mushroom" keith!

earlier today -

on damp hay;




and this one on horse manure;



not very spectacular. Sticking my neck out a little id plump for both of these being Panaeolus spp
any adv on that anyone?

Ben, Keith and Suz, any ideas what this is??

Scale wrote: It could be a number of things but without a full pic of the stem, description of its flesh, smell,  texture, size, habitat (woodland type?), soil type and most importantly the gill arrangement and colouration it would be hard to narrow it down, although i'm sure a specialist could tell you for cert. It is reasonably distinct, has a convex (slimy?) cap, and apparently a fibrillose, unveiled and relatively thick stem.

wise words methinx.

not a Bolete for deffo tho. they have thicker caps of twin "layers" with pores not gills.
this looks like an adnate-gilled mushroom for sure. no "pit" in the middle etc.

unless youre a very well informed and experienced Mycologist, id say almost impossible to ID this from a single pic Rob- esp with little indication of scale (no pun intended!) either.

however, based on what little i know and your solitary pic, if you twisted my arm, my stab would be;
a rather dehydroed (owing to the weather) Tawny Grisette Amanita fulva

probably wrong! LOL

cheers, ben

I'm back....

One possible candidate for species is Amanita gemmata.  Keiths' "horse mushroom"is definately not a A. arvensis as they never have dark scales such as shown on the cap.  They're usually off-white and can yellow slightly on handling.



Edited by arvensis - 01 Aug 2011 at 5:02pm