Mushroom identification?

[LotusMartin]

Can anyone positively identify these mushrooms as edible? We’ve loads growing in our field but i’ve never been confident enough to try eating them.

With random advice off the internet i’m sure nothing can go wrong….

Fairly sure they’re just standard field mushrooms but i can’t find my book on them anywhere




Also have these but pretty sure they’re poisonous!!

[Mobile Chicane]

This time of year again....

First pictures; compare with Agaricus campestris.

Second lot: compare with Lycoperdon perlatum.

Get a book for ID. There is no 'app' which is reliable.

This book is the one to go for, and at that price it's a steal. I've seen it at £30-£40. The original now out of print, purely for the clarity of photographs and visual key to the main species. Ignore the 'updated' version.

[dickymint]

Mobile Chicane said:

This time of year again....

First pictures; compare with Agaricus campestris.

Second lot: compare with Lycoperdon perlatum.

Get a book for ID. There is no 'app' which is reliable.

This book is the one to go for, and at that price it's a steal. I've seen it at £30-£40. The original now out of print, purely for the clarity of photographs and visual key to the main species. Ignore the 'updated' version.

Agree with the ID's - find somebody local that knows their stuff and learn how to do a spore test.
PS. Young Puff Balls are delicious

[LotusMartin]

Mobile Chicane said:

This time of year again....

First pictures; compare with Agaricus campestris.

Second lot: compare with Lycoperdon perlatum.

Get a book for ID. There is no 'app' which is reliable.

This book is the one to go for, and at that price it's a steal. I've seen it at £30-£40. The original now out of print, purely for the clarity of photographs and visual key to the main species. Ignore the 'updated' version.

Thanks MC - ordered!

[21TonyK]

LotusMartin said:

Mobile Chicane said:

This time of year again....

First pictures; compare with Agaricus campestris.

Second lot: compare with Lycoperdon perlatum.

Get a book for ID. There is no 'app' which is reliable.

This book is the one to go for, and at that price it's a steal. I've seen it at £30-£40. The original now out of print, purely for the clarity of photographs and visual key to the main species. Ignore the 'updated' version.

Thanks MC - ordered!

And from me! Also ordered, loads of shrooms etc in my local woods.

[Mobile Chicane]

The other great book I find myself recommending for the newbie is this one:



https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mushrooms-River-Cottage-H...

Reason being it provides the key ID points for the most choice edibles, together with their dangerous lookalikes. If you follow the instructions exactly, there is no possibility of making a mistake.

[LunarOne]

LotusMartin said:

Mobile Chicane said:

This time of year again....

First pictures; compare with Agaricus campestris.

Second lot: compare with Lycoperdon perlatum.

Get a book for ID. There is no 'app' which is reliable.

This book is the one to go for, and at that price it's a steal. I've seen it at £30-£40. The original now out of print, purely for the clarity of photographs and visual key to the main species. Ignore the 'updated' version.

Thanks MC - ordered!

Me too! There's a National Trust-organised fungus walk on Cooper's Hill in Runnymede (round the corner from where I live) on the 25th September and I hope to go along. I'm not really a typical NT customer as I'd pick a burbling V8 over a stately home on any given day, but mushrooms are right up my alley!



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[Mobile Chicane]

LunarOne said:

Me too! There's a National Trust-organised fungus walk on Cooper's Hill in Runnymede (round the corner from where I live) on the 25th September and I hope to go along. I'm not really a typical NT customer as I'd pick a burbling V8 over a stately home on any given day, but mushrooms are right up my alley!

I think that would be well worth going along to. 'Mushroom walks' can be hard to find. COVID / bans on picking, etc.

[FredericRobinson]

dickymint said:

Agree with the ID's - find somebody local that knows their stuff and learn how to do a spore test.
PS. Young Puff Balls are delicious

Just don’t eat the wrong kind off puff balls, like the ones that put most of my family in hospital a couple of years ago

[dickymint]

FredericRobinson said:

dickymint said:

Agree with the ID's - find somebody local that knows their stuff and learn how to do a spore test.
PS. Young Puff Balls are delicious

Just don’t eat the wrong kind off puff balls, like the ones that put most of my family in hospital a couple of years ago

what were they? Puffballs are one of the easiest to spot. Pure white inside and no gills.

[otolith]

dickymint said:

what were they? Puffballs are one of the easiest to spot. Pure white inside and no gills.

Earthballs?

(obvious if you know, but maybe not everyone does)

[anonymous-user]

The photos look like the wood mushroom, Agaricus silvaticus; it's edible, but doesn't last long and can't be stored like other mushrooms.

[BigMon]

I wouldn't eat any mushroom without it being identified by someone who knows what they're doing tbh.

[otolith]

BigMon said:

I wouldn't eat any mushroom without it being identified by someone who knows what they're doing tbh.

There are a number of edible species which are unmistakable. You don’t need to be an expert to learn to identify those.

Ironically, mushrooms which look like the ones in Tesco are not amongst them.

[dickymint]

otolith said:

BigMon said:

I wouldn't eat any mushroom without it being identified by someone who knows what they're doing tbh.

There are a number of edible species which are unmistakable. You don’t need to be an expert to learn to identify those.

Ironically, mushrooms which look like the ones in Tesco are not amongst them.

Yep - here's a good guide of some of the "safest" Ceps are the king in my opinion and I've yet to find Blewits ..........

https://www.wildfooduk.com/articles/wild-mushrooms...

[otolith]

Hedgehogs are unmistakable and excellent. Ceps (and boletes in general) can’t be mistaken for anything that will kill you. Even the rare Devil’s Bolete (which is itself quite hard to mistake for anything else) you will live to regret eating. Giant puffballs. Parasols.

I found a single wood blewit in my front garden. It was delicious.

[dxbtiger]

These popped in my garden, seemingly overnight.

My 4 year old spotted them and said it was an Elf's house.

House is now in the bin (4 and 2 year old showing far too much interest), any idea from this one photo what they are?

They smelt like regular mushrooms if that's any help..

[LunarOne]

Mobile Chicane said:

LunarOne said:

Me too! There's a National Trust-organised fungus walk on Cooper's Hill in Runnymede (round the corner from where I live) on the 25th September and I hope to go along. I'm not really a typical NT customer as I'd pick a burbling V8 over a stately home on any given day, but mushrooms are right up my alley!

I think that would be well worth going along to. 'Mushroom walks' can be hard to find. COVID / bans on picking, etc.

Sadly it was postponed as the guide was unwell. No idea if it was covid-related but they promise to let us know when it's rescheduled.

[Venisonpie]

Alternatively, grow your own.



Bought lady VP a kit from a local farmers market not expecting much and now they're growing so fast she's a little scared of them.