Find of the day

goosey · #1 (**permalink**) 10-09-2011, 12:44 PM

I have been going to start this thread for ages, just for those special finds - perhaps an old favourite, a welcome return, something rather unusual or rare or just a fungus you like .

goosey · #2 (**permalink**) 10-09-2011, 12:52 PM

Righty ho! I shall start off with a find from yesterday.
Only a Fly agaic -Amanita muscaria but I never feel the fungi season is under way until I have one of these under my belt

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This is quite early for me to find the in NP Zuid Kennemerland compared to other years.

goosey · #3 (**permalink**) 10-09-2011, 06:50 PM

Today's little joy was this lovely Hygrocybe psittacina -Parrot wax cap (still waiting to find a purple one). It has an unusual patterning to the cap, the others it was with were just normal everyday yellow or brownish parrot waxcaps.

bulbosa · #4 (**permalink**) 10-09-2011, 06:51 PM

Not particularly rare but always a great find

The Magpie

Mal

goosey · #5 (**permalink**) 14-09-2011, 08:13 AM

"Just lovely" I thought when I saw this little group of Panther Caps - Amanita pantherina.

goosey · #6 (**permalink**) 16-09-2011, 01:47 PM

My contribution today ia another Amanita. This time Amanita phalloides -Death Cap, quite a young specimen but what made me take notice of this one is the remnants of the veil on the cap - I can't say I have come across this with this species before.
Death caps seem abundant again this year but I don't belive there are as many as there were in 2010 which was a bumper year for them.

bulbosa · #7 (**permalink**) 17-09-2011, 07:43 AM

Last year we got a call from the local Ministry of Agriculture for Death Caps for some research on the poisons and I was able to give them some as they are just arround the corner from where I live. I went for a foray with the scientist concerned last week and managed to find his own private patch in the grounds of his work place.

Mal

goosey · #8 (**permalink**) 22-09-2011, 11:25 AM

Not so many around as last year, but as stinky as ever, Phallus impudicus - Stinkhorn.

goosey · #9 (**permalink**) 26-09-2011, 11:23 AM

Dead chuffed with this little find, a Rhodotus palmatus -Wrinkled Peach

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bulbosa · #10 (**permalink**) 26-09-2011, 10:56 PM

So you should be what a great find and beautiful photo.

Mal

basquesteve · #11 (**permalink**) 29-09-2011, 03:42 PM

In the interests of culinary delights this ended up with others as first course with butter last night

delicious

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goosey · #12 (**permalink**) 29-09-2011, 03:57 PM

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In the interests of culinary delights this ended up with others as first course with butter last night

delicious

I haven't seen many at all this year, even in the places they are usually abundant - you haven't been nipping to Holland for a free supper have you Steve

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Drosera · #13 (**permalink**) 29-09-2011, 04:28 PM

I get them on my lawn - if I have identified it correctly!
Stolt fjällskivling - Macrolepiota procera

basquesteve · #14 (**permalink**) 29-09-2011, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by goosey

I haven't seen many at all this year, even in the places they are usually abundant - you haven't been nipping to Holland for a free supper have you Steve

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I have never stopped in Holland but driven through it many times

paul m · #15 (**permalink**) 29-09-2011, 06:47 PM

I'm glad you spoke of that in the past tense. I do get worried when friends say that they're going to eat such and such a toadstool later - I have to hope seriously that their identification is correct! I'm sure that would be so in present company but there are people who make serious (very serious) mistakes .....

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Originally Posted by basquesteve

In the interests of culinary delights this ended up with others as first course with butter last night

delicious

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basquesteve · #16 (**permalink**) 30-09-2011, 08:43 AM

Excellent advice Paul

Here in France the Pharmacy will identify your pickings for free( they are subject to an annual test) its very serious many French kill themselves each year, I was lucky to be taken on many forays in the Correze

Steve

paul m · #17 (**permalink**) 30-09-2011, 07:02 PM

I feel a detective novel coming on - sweet old retired pharmacist giving advice on fungi but sometimes making identification errors; coincidentally the errors occur for people who have made small allowances for her in their wills ....

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Originally Posted by basquesteve

.......Here in France the Pharmacy will identify your pickings for free( they are subject to an annual test) its very serious many French kill themselves each year, I was lucky to be taken on many forays in the Correze

Steve

goosey · #18 (**permalink**) 14-10-2011, 12:19 PM

A very good day for fungi there is a lot more around than my last few visits, maybe it is to do with the rain or drop in temperature. I am struggling to decide which I should nominate as my find of the day but have decided to plump for Pluteus leoninus - the Lion shield.

goosey · #19 (**permalink**) 15-10-2011, 04:17 PM

I went on an organised fungi walk today at Landgoed Koningshof. There was lot of fungi around but nothing that was totally new to me. My actual find of the day were some Clavaria fragilis (white spindles) among hundreds of waxcaps but all my photo's were really rubbish andI just couldn't get a focus on the white fungus just everything else around it

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Anyway, another nice find was this Russula

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bulbosa · #20 (**permalink**) 17-10-2011, 08:13 AM

Glad to hear you have finally started to get some finds. It seems no one else on this site is though

Mal

goosey · #21 (**permalink**) 18-10-2011, 01:44 PM

The good news is I found something nice for the thread, a lovely group of Tulostoma brumale - Winter stalkball and in a place I haven't see them before

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The bad news is, its a sure sign winter is almost here

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goosey · #22 (**permalink**) 22-10-2011, 01:26 PM

How lovely, I just love colourful fungi and this is colourful! I think that it is a Blewit, Lepista Sp.

bulbosa · #23 (**permalink**) 22-10-2011, 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by goosey

The good news is I found something nice for the thread, a lovely group of Tulostoma brumale - Winter stalkball and in a place I haven't see them before

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The bad news is, its a sure sign winter is almost here

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What a great find. Thanks for sharing it with us (I assume there is more than just me

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Mal

goosey · #24 (**permalink**) 22-10-2011, 04:58 PM

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Originally Posted by bulbosa

(I assume there is more than just me

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Mal

Nope it's just me and thee

. Just like Robinson Cruesoe and Man Friday (without the nice tune!)

goosey · #25 (**permalink**) 27-10-2011, 03:36 PM

I found so many of these Geoglossum cookeanum in a new location and they were large and mature. I saw some last week which were tiny in comparrison.
(still waiting to find some pink or green one's

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