crofter
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good or bad?Anybody know? Found in a grassy field.
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Stewy
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Could be The Miller Clitopilus prunulus Perhaps????
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Truffle
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not the miller- looks more like a wax cap.
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cab
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Does have the look of a wax cap.
Picture of the guts and a spore print colour would help.
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skedone
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@cab (sorry to high jack post)
what books do you use for spore identification mate would be nice to know so i can add them books to my collection
will be buying the fungi of Switzerland collection soon got another 70 quid to put aside for the last book (which being near crimbo is hard lol)
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crofter
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Guts? Like this?
Here it is in the ground
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Truffle
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| skedone wrote: | @cab (sorry to high jack post)
what books do you use for spore identification mate would be nice to know so i can add them books to my collection
will be buying the mushrooms of Switzerland collection soon got another 70 quid to put aside for the last book (which being near crimbo is hard lol) |
those sound like excellent books. i find a microscope to look at spore shape/size is also pretty useful for us fungi geeks
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cab
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Spore print colour is listed in Phillips, and for me its almost always the starting point. I got into a habit of keying unknown samples out using the old edition of Phillips, which of course had a key that started with sproe print colour. The habit stuck.
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skedone
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must get phillips book one of these days
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Pilsbury
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O its been mentioned a million time on DS now but how do you do a spore print??
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cab
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| Pilsbury wrote: | | O its been mentioned a million time on DS now but how do you do a spore print?? |
Dead easy. Get a bit of black card, and a bit of white card. Or paper.
Put the shroom gill side down on top of the two.
Put this somewhere out of the way, out of any drafts.
Come back later, look at the colour. Sometimes you need to scrape the spores together to see a colour.
Not foolproof, in that its only PART of any mushroom ID, but its a characteristic that rarely lies.
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crofter
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Spore print colour for this one is white/beige.
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cab
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| crofter wrote: | | Spore print colour for this one is white/beige. |
Oh...
I'm stumped.
Errm... Clitocybe nebularis var. alba? Gills wrong though... They make it look more like a Hygrophorus.
Its either a hard one or I'm having a brain dead moment 
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crofter
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| cab wrote: |
Its either a hard one or I'm having a brain dead moment |
Well, I've never seen it before, and usually pay attention to whatever is growing...
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bubble
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I'ts a meadow waxcap ,Hygrocybe pratensis.
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crofter
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Thanks bubble, are they edible?
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