A search for a fun guy (fungi).

[fish]

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.

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m92/fishfish_01/Bushcraft/DSC03402.jpg

can you identify these?:

these were all over a beech tree.Oudemansiella mucida, the Porcelain Fungus,a distant agaric member and apparently edible .
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m92/fishfish_01/Bushcraft/DSC03404.jpg
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m92/fishfish_01/Bushcraft/DSC03390.jpg

again on Beech:
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m92/fishfish_01/Bushcraft/DSC03385.jpg

easy this one, jews ear, edible.
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m92/fishfish_01/Bushcraft/DSC03398.jpg

on dead Beech:
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m92/fishfish_01/Bushcraft/DSC03397.jpg

and these:
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m92/fishfish_01/Bushcraft/DSC03387.jpg

which appear to grow into these:
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m92/fishfish_01/Bushcraft/DSC03401.jpg

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.

[paulthefish2009]

Pheasant curry! sounds great Fish T^ Oh and nice pics mate. Paul

[fish]

yep and pheasant kievs tonight.

[AL...]

Now thats my kinda schoolin!!! :D
Great pics Justin

Cheers
AL

[Basha72]

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

Dave

[fish]

yep thats the one.

[ADz]

Great pics, thnx for sharing. These from UK?

[Geoff Dann]

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.

[fish]

bugger!

[Geoff Dann]

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.

Geoff

[fish]

i lesson learned.

[Tigger004]

Little bit scary that it could be that easy to poison one's self

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.


Geoff

[fish]

knocked my confidence a bit.

[Ehecatl]

Chaps - any idea what this is?

It was on a fallen silver birch in the New Forest this weekend. I wondered if it was edible ~ out of curiosity only you understand.

60806081

I used to work with a chap who was very knowledgable about fungi. He (after consultation) quashed my father's "rule" that if you can peel the skin of fungi from the rim to the crown in one go it is edible. I suspect the reverese is true (that if it won't peel in one go, it's definately going to harm you)!

M@

[Silverback]

Birch polypores cant really see because I'm viewing on my phone. Dont eat fungi if you cant positively identify it, just not worth the risk.

[AdrianRose]

Yep. Definately Birch Polypore. Not really edible. But it does have a ton of other uses such as plasters, tinder, knife sharpening etc etc

Ade

[Geoff Dann]

knocked my confidence a bit.

It is better to have your confidence knocked a bit than being a bit over-confident when the game is foraging for wild fungi.

The problem with fungi is that there are SO many of them. The species you got mixed up with Jew's Ear is just one of countless species you might have got mixed up with Jew's Ear, some of which won't be in any of your reference books. That means you've got to be uber-careful when you are collecting something self-identified for the first time. If it looks a lot like something you were hoping to find, but not quite, then it is probably something else.

The best way to avoid ending up dead is to make absolutely certain you know all of the seriously poisonous species (of which there aren't actually that many.) They fall into the following genera: Amanita, Cortinarius, Clitocybe, Lepiota, Inocybe, Galerina. It is pretty hard to kill yourself if you know what these look like and avoid them.

[Humakt]

I was about to say the same thing - that IS NOT Jew's Ear!