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Can anyone identify this mushroom?

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  • 22-08-2017 10:18pm
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    Marzipan85
    Registered Users Posts: 133 ✭✭


    Massive mushroom growing in the front garden. Anyone have an idea what it is? Sort of looks like a giant button mushroom. But hopefully is something more interesting than that.


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    macraignil
    Registered Users Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭macraignil


    Looks to me like a type of field mushroom which is related to the cultivated button mushroom.


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    blackbox
    Registered Users Posts: 4,315 ✭✭✭blackbox


    As above, it's probably a field mushroom that has been damaged by snails/slugs. In order to be sure (before eating), you need to check the gills.


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    Hocus Focus
    Registered Users Posts: 754 ✭✭✭Hocus Focus


    http://www.wildfooduk.com/mushroom-guides/
    Have a look at the website linked above. I found it to be the most user friendly of the ones available.
    Using it I ate a few varieties of fungi that appeared in a semi woodland/overgrown area of my garden where I dump grass cuttings. I survived with no ill effects:)


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    Marzipan85
    Registered Users Posts: 133 ✭✭Marzipan85


    This is the underside now (it's withering). It was mostly white on underside when it was a few days younger. if it was a field mushroom should it have had grey gills?


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    blackbox
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    When I see the underside I don't think it is a field mushroom. Gills should be greyish pink to brown.

    I definitely would not eat that.

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    Hocus Focus
    Registered Users Posts: 754 ✭✭✭Hocus Focus


    Looks like Clitocybe Dealbata in the "Poisonous" section of the Guide referenced above.


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    Velvet shank
    Registered Users Posts: 133 ✭✭Velvet shank


    This is probably Amanita strobiliformis - very nice find, not one for the pot though!


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    Marzipan85
    Registered Users Posts: 133 ✭✭Marzipan85


    Velvet shank - yes I think I agree its a Amanita strobiliformis after googling that. I don't think it was pretty enough to be the Clitocybe dealbata! But yeah, was never planning to take a chance on eating it.


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    Lumen
    Registered Users Posts: 31,072 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Velvet shank wrote: »
    This is probably Amanita strobiliformis - very nice find, not one for the pot though!
    I dunno, Wikipedia says "Muscimol (also known as agarin or pantherine) is the principal psychoactive constituent of Amanita muscaria and related species of mushroom. Muscimol is a potent, selective agonist for the GABAA receptors and displays sedative-hypnotic, depressant and dissociative psychoactivity. ".

    Sounds like a fun evening.


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    Marzipan85
    Registered Users Posts: 133 ✭✭Marzipan85


    Is this a liberty cap? Not living in rural/wooded area. but there are a lot of foxes about. would they spread it?

    I put in on paper to see if i can get a spore print (is that what you need to do?)


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    LaChatteGitane
    Registered Users Posts: 790 ✭✭✭LaChatteGitane


    Coprinus atramentarius. - Common ink cap


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