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    A search for a fun guy (fungi).

    We have just started Home schooling the 3 youngest boys again today and we decided a field trip was in order,turned out to be a wood trip actually,being a very damp day and foggy i thought it would be fun to find as many different fungi as we could in an afternoon.



    can you identify these?:

    these were all over a beech tree.Oudemansiella mucida, the Porcelain Fungus,a distant agaric member and apparently edible .



    again on Beech:


    easy this one, jews ear, edible.


    on dead Beech:


    and these:


    which appear to grow into these:


    all in all a nice afternoon had ,and on our return the house smelled of the pheasant curry that i had put in the oven before we went out.

    thanks for looking.
    Last edited by fish; 22-10-2012 at 08:01 PM.
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    Pheasant curry! sounds great Fish Oh and nice pics mate. Paul

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    yep and pheasant kievs tonight.
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    Now thats my kinda schoolin!!!
    Great pics Justin

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    Think the top one is porcelain fungi ? But IM no expert just starting to try and get to grips with fungi myself !

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    yep thats the one.
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    Great pics, thnx for sharing. These from UK?

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    easy this one, jews ear, edible.
    Not that easy, obviously, since that is neither jew's ear nor is it edible. Habitat is wrong (jew's ear grows on elder, that is beech), and jew's ear doesn't actually look like that. Have you ever actually found jew's ear before?

    This is Ascocoryne sarcoides, inedible and of unknown toxicity. DO NOT EAT.
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    bugger!
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    Fish,

    There's not many edible fungi that are so easy it is impossible to get them wrong. You got Jew's Ear wrong. I've seen people get COTW wrong, and apparently it is even possible to get a penny bun wrong - and badly.

    I think parasols and shaggy parasols can probably only be mixed up with each other, the same applies to hedgehogs and terracotta hedghogs, and you can't really get a giant puffball or shaggy inkcap wrong. Apart from that, there's no such thing as easy.

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