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What are these mushrooms? They have appeared at the same place as last year.

Also, what kind of weed/ plant is this small plant at the top left of 2nd picture?




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Sorry I can't ID the mushrooms but the weed is a small willowherb seedling. Best pulled out as it seeds a lot if you let it flower, but it's not hard to get each plant out.

29 Jun, 2011

 

Agree with Beattie on the willow herb. No idea about the fungi, need to see a lot more of, it wont do any harm in your garden just don't eat it!

29 Jun, 2011

 

Mushrooms can't usually be identified from just one photo. They won't do any harm and will soon disappear again so just ignore them.

29 Jun, 2011

 

They look like 'Clitocybe nebularis'!! I just looked it up in a book, and that's the most likely one, and like me, you're probably none the wiser! If that is the one, it is an edible toadstool, but I wouldn't like to give it a try, and I should wash your hands after you've touched it, just in case!! Oh, and according to the book, it's very common! Annie (Cumbria)

29 Jun, 2011

 

Annie, I think it is very unwise to try and i.d. any fungi just from a photo. We have several very good field guides and I use these to i.d. fungi in the wild. Even then unless I am absolutely sure I will not eat. The fungi being held up is not a complete specimen, you can't see the gills, you don't know what it smells like. I could go on but I strongly recommend you leave those fungi alone Aimenkay, or if your are worried put them all into a plastic bag and into your wheelie bin and yes was your hands well or wear gloves.

30 Jun, 2011

 

Thanks everyone. I had binned all of those as soon as I had taken pix of them. I was just curious to know what are those especially if they keep coming back at the same spot. I wouldn't dream of eating mushrooms in garden as i would rather buy few. :)

30 Jun, 2011

 

I didn't say it definitely was that one, MG, but Aimankay did want to know what it was, and I thought I was being helpful. I did say he should wash his hands after touching them, after all, and you'd already advised him/her not to eat it. Also, the toadstool held up was a complete specimen, so I was able to see that it had a white stem and no skirt, meaning it was not a mushroom. In the fungi field guide that I have, that was the most likely one, as I said. Sorry if I misled anyone, but I thought the aim of this site was to try to help one another. Annie (Cumbria)

30 Jun, 2011

 

It is Annie, with fungi though it really isn't safe to i.d. from a photo. A local laird is on kidney dialysis waiting for a transplant because a visitor picked what he thought where chantrelles, only a few weren't.

1 Jul, 2011

 

I don't think they are clitocybe nebularis anyway, though I can see why you thought they might be. The stems of that one taper slightly towards the top and yours doesn't. They are uncommon and grow on leaf litter in woods as a rule. And edibility is only questioned, not established although some clitocybes are edible and good. You can't be too careful: although there aren't many deadly ones there are quite a few that would make you ill if you ate them. If you get any more have a look at how the cap is attached to the stem and see whether the gills run smoothly into the top of the stem or if they finish abruptly where the stem meets the cap so there is a little gap there. If they do the latter they aren't clitocybes. Some species can only be identified with certainty by looking at the spores under a microscope or even seeing how they change colour in contact with a certain chemical.

1 Jul, 2011

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