Cathryn
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Fungus identity pleaseJamanda thinks that this is Agaricus pseudovillaticus. They smell mushroomy, the spore print is chocolate brown. We found them in the wood shed.  Growing on larch chippings.
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nettie
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Ooh, nice. Were they clustered together, all growing out of the same spot??
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Cathryn
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Yes. A tight deep clump.
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cab
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When cut, does it stay really red or does it quickly fade browner?
Hard to tell from the pic... Can't be the more common A. langei? Jamandas ID sounds good (and well done on that, its a rare mushroom), but I wonder whether we could get a picture of the clump of shrooms?
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Jamanda
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The clump consisted of three and they all came up together (we are hoping to eat them  ).
The red colour does fade to brown.
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bubble
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they may be aga. silvaticus or aga. langei .
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cab
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A. langei would have been my bet, but Jamandas ID is intriguingly possible.
I'd plump for A. langei myself. I've never even seen (let alone eaten) A. pseudovillaticus (syn. with A. bohusii I think), but it is edible. And as A. langei is good and tasty, as is A. bernardii, and A. sylvaticus, and for that matter A. haemorrhoidarius (which I can't spell, probably), I think that having a sample for the pot would be acceptable.
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bubble
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aga. bernardii is edible but it has a disgusting fishy smell!!!Inland it grows mostly on roadsides which have been well salted ;it needs the salinity in the soil to be well high to create the conditions that it likes,normally found near the sea.Its also a pretty large mushroom and white on top and cuts red.
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Jamanda
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| cab wrote: | A. langei would have been my bet, but Jamandas ID is intriguingly possible.
I'd plump for A. langei myself. I've never even seen (let alone eaten) A. pseudovillaticus (syn. with A. bohusii I think), but it is edible. And as A. langei is good and tasty, as is A. bernardii, and A. sylvaticus, and for that matter A. haemorrhoidarius (which I can't spell, probably), I think that having a sample for the pot would be acceptable. |
A. langei doesn't seem quite right - the spore print wasn't purple/brown - and the stems tapered towards the base as Philips says A psuedovillaticus does. Anyway, they were a bit maggotty and past it so I put them back where they came from so the spores can fall out.
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cab
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| bubble wrote: | | aga. bernardii is edible but it has a disgusting fishy smell!!! |
Depends where you pick it from. Theres a patch here where I get it, its next to a quiet road that gets an inexplicable amount of gritting each year. Tastes good. But the ones you get from coastal patches are sometimes a bit less pleasant.
Not that I'm suggesting that this is A. bernardii, I was simply listing the first red stainng Agaricus that came to mind.
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