A couple for ID and a confirmation

[goosey]

1. Is this a Dyer's mazegill - Phaeolus schweinitzii? If not I haven't aclue and would like an ID please! Found on a tree stump.



2. Russula's I take it - but which? 12 found in dark shade under Yew.



3. A Bolete. Found on grass 6cm tall. The cap was an orangy/ brown with flecks of yellow smooth and flat.




4. Lots of these on grass close to the Yew and Rusullas. Cap 6cm across 3-4cm tall.

[Cybershot]

Having had a rubbish couple of days getting a bit carried away with identifications of boletes I am inclined to tread warily:

Starting from the bottom with the most recognisable of your specimens I would suggest Paxillus involutus - Brown Rollrim, the yellowish gills become flecked and can easily be removed from the cap in a similar fashion to the tube layer in Boletes.

The apparent ring, darkening with age, on your Bolete immediately suggests a very mature, dry specimen of Suillus luteus - Slippery Jack which grows consistently with Scots Pine. But in view of my opening words I am not confident in this case.

From then on it gets impossible as Russulas are so difficult to pin down, and the bracket, which I am convinced is not Phaeolus schweinitzii (Changes) needs futher monitoring if possible. But if asked to hazard a guess I would say possibly a young Fistulina hepatica - Beefsteak Fungus.

[goosey]

Originally Posted by Cybershot

Having had a rubbish couple of days getting a bit carried away with identifications of boletes I am inclined to tread warily: .

Don't let a couple of dud ID's knock your confidence - I would have given up years ago trying to help out with alsorts of ID's after the embarrassment getting them wrong - I just keep getting back on that horse!
Sorry to hear things aren't very good on the fungi front - I popped into WAB yeaterday, the first time for ages and there seems alot of stunning specimens around in the north of the country - its their reward for having to put up with such short summers and so much rain .

Originally Posted by Cybershot

Starting from the bottom with the most recognisable of your specimens I would suggest Paxillus involutus - Brown Rollrim, the yellowish gills become flecked and can easily be removed from the cap in a similar fashion to the tube layer in Boletes.
The apparent ring, darkening with age, on your Bolete immediately suggests a very mature, dry specimen of Suillus luteus - Slippery Jack which grows consistently with Scots Pine. But in view of my opening words I am not confident in this case. .

Thanks, for these two possibilities - I will check them out further when I get a chance!

Originally Posted by Cybershot

From then on it gets impossible as Russulas are so difficult to pin down,

I didn't really expect a firm ID on these - I was just showing off

Originally Posted by Cybershot

and the bracket, which I am convinced is not Phaeolus schweinitzii (Changes) needs futher monitoring if possible. But if asked to hazard a guess I would say possibly a young Fistulina hepatica - Beefsteak Fungus.

Beefsteak was my initial thought as I walked over towards it, but the paler colouration and actually having two colours and not just tones of vivid orange made me think perhaps Dyers mazegill. Saying that, I have only seen that once in adult form and that was in Cumbria not in Holland.
I will keep an interested eye on this.

Hopefully Nick or Mal (or even better a new fungi enthusiast) may add their thoughts .

[goosey]

Originally Posted by goosey

1. Is this a Dyer's mazegill - Phaeolus schweinitzii? If not I haven't aclue and would like an ID please! Found on a tree stump.

Originally Posted by Cybershot

I am convinced is not Phaeolus schweinitzii (Changes) needs futher monitoring if possible. But if asked to hazard a guess I would say possibly a young Fistulina hepatica - Beefsteak Fungus.

I have been back today and really doubt that this is Fistulina hepatica. It has darkened a little but hasn't grown and I still think the texture and colour is all wrong.
What really make's this scream as something different is that there are now two Fistulina hepatica on the same stump!
One is a very recent eruption and the other a little older and if I put todays photo of the inidentified fungus (image 1.) along side these two the difference is obvious.

A. What do you think that the chances of this still being a Fistulina hepatica but a malformed one?
B. What are the chances of this being a Dyer's mazegill?

2. 3.

[bulbosa]

Better late than never.
I'v been too busy enjoying myself at Clumber Park.
Fistulina usually grows on Oak Phaeolus grows on conifer so the chances of finding these two on the same stump are pretty remote. I would go with Davids suggestion Fistulina.
Paxillus involutus and a dry Suillus luteus sound spot on for me.
The Russula is a Russula
Mal

[goosey]

Originally Posted by bulbosa

Better late than never.
I'v been too busy enjoying myself at Clumber Park.
Fistulina usually grows on Oak Phaeolus grows on conifer so the chances of finding these two on the same stump are pretty remote. I would go with Davids suggestion Fistulina.
Paxillus involutus and a dry Suillus luteus sound spot on for me.
The Russula is a Russula
Mal

Thanks Mal. I have been monitoring the stump with the Fistulina and since last week Mycena and honey fungus have grown on it. The 2 "real" Fistulina have developed exactly as I would expect but what I thought was Phaeolus schweinitzii has darkend even more and I believe has shrunken a little.
I doubt we will ever really know now, but it could be a malformed Fistulina hepatica with weather condition playing a part (it had been very dry for ages) and I still think the texture is so wrong for a normally developed Fistulina. But as you say it unlikely to have Phaeolus schweinitzii and Fistulina hepatica on the same stump, I will have to agree with you and David.
Thank you both.

Glad you had a good time at Clumber - never been to that part of the world myself, must have been fun to have met everyone.