can anyone here Identify these Mushrooms please?

[y2blade]

as per title

[y2blade]

shook the bucket a bit for a clearer view

[Pobolycwm]

looks like some type of Clitocybe, tend to grow in rings, poisonous

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Pobolycwm said:

looks like some type of Clitocybe, tend to grow in rings, poisonous

Not all are.

I was trying to identify something similar on Saturday (growing in the garden) - the gills were very yellow though & the flesh went brown when cut. The stem didn't have a hollow/stringy section like all the pictures in the book I have.

They look similar to yours Y2, but not on the underside. The top was also quite leathery.


Found some puffballs whilst on holiday in Devon (3 diff varieties) plus a yellow staining mushroom.

I missed the inkcaps growing in the garden, which were just inky blobs when we got back.

[Kermit power]

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a yellow staining mushroom.

Those are right buggers! Look just like yummy horse mushrooms, except for the bright yellow when cut, and the make-you-very-ill when eaten!

[Simpo Two]

Try the Food & Drink forum, there are some serious fungiphiles there. Latin names and everything!

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Kermit power said:

Smiler. said:

a yellow staining mushroom.

Those are right buggers! Look just like yummy horse mushrooms, except for the bright yellow when cut, and the make-you-very-ill when eaten!

Too right.

I'm really apprehensive about eating any that pick, as some books initially suggest they are safe, but cross referencing with others suggests not, or at least raises a query.

[Pobolycwm]

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Pobolycwm said:

looks like some type of Clitocybe, tend to grow in rings, poisonous

Not all are.

I was trying to identify something similar on Saturday (growing in the garden) - the gills were very yellow though & the flesh went brown when cut. The stem didn't have a hollow/stringy section like all the pictures in the book I have.

They look similar to yours Y2, but not on the underside. The top was also quite leathery.


Found some puffballs whilst on holiday in Devon (3 diff varieties) plus a yellow staining mushroom.

I missed the inkcaps growing in the garden, which were just inky blobs when we got back.

Most clitocybes are inedible, if it`s the ivory clitocybe it`s deadly

[JustinP1]

Pretty much every year someone, and sometimes more than one person in the UK dies from eating mushrooms that they 'found'.

It is sometimes very difficult to tell an edible one from an inedible one.

I like PH, don't get me wrong, but I wouldn't get that type of advice from here.

[russ_a]

Didnt that mushroom expert on the Ray MEars show get caught out last year and ate something he shouldn't?

We have loads on the garden at the moment and I wouldn't even think about trying them

[Kermit power]

JustinP1 said:

Pretty much every year someone, and sometimes more than one person in the UK dies from eating mushrooms that they 'found'.

It is sometimes very difficult to tell an edible one from an inedible one.

I like PH, don't get me wrong, but I wouldn't get that type of advice from here.

I went on a mushroom identification course as a birthday present. Their approach was to say that there around 20 species of mushroom in the UK that taste wonderful, about another 20 that will kill you, and 1,000+ in between that will range from not tasting too great through to not quite lethal, so rather than trying to learn the lot, just focus on making sure you can identify the really good ones and avoid the real nasties.

[Simpo Two]

Kermit power said:

and 1,000+ in between that will range from not tasting too great through to not quite lethal

Mostly bought by Little Chef!

[y2blade]

I'm not interested in eating them...I was always taught "if not 100% with any mushrooms don't touch them"

I just wondered what they were

I cleared these few from the corner of one of our paddocks (using a Bush hook, to cut and then fling them into bucket) as the Dog was showing an interest...they are now bagged and binned