I know of someone who might know O; but there on WWW bogmyrtle she is in to fungus, whatever you do Dont eat it. LOL

Don't know which one it is but would lay odds it is poisonous

You don't give any indication of the size.....I don't know of a waxcap this colour though they come in a huge range of colours. They are very tiny though.

How about this:http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Stropharia+caerulea&hl=en&rlz=1C1ASUT_enGB393CZ395&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=Av3gTpG6CJH98QO-r_nNBA&ved=0CC8QsAQ&biw=1366&bih=659

(How does one insert a link without producing a great long string please?)

I really can't help you on your fungus, but following Cestinas link I found this...............

https://mycotopia.net/forums/wild-mushrooming-field-forest/49530-non-blue-bruise-psychoactive-shrooms.html

Worth a read.

Cestina you need to get bitly and bitly sidebar to produce small links it turns your huge link above into http://bit.ly/sqevP4
much easier to copy and paste into your browser

Thanks Moon grower :-) I wish all websites formed short links the same way :-(

Oooh, thanks MG!

So from the link above I now get..............

http://bit.ly/sj3IGT

And it works!

And I get: http://bit.ly/sIjDR7 :-) Works too!

There you go... Glad to have been of help :-)

Sorry, size is from about 1.5 inches in diameter to 3 inches on the bigger ones.

Then certainly not a waxcap......

I am very happy because they have just confirmed on BBC's Saving Species programme that by having a very mossy lawn I am encouraging wild life and especially fungi :-)

If it smells strongly of aniseed it will be the aniseed toadstool, Clitocybe Odora, which is actually edible, but no way should you risk it. There are very few with this cap coloration.

The smell is very strongly mushroom rather than aniseed. Stropharia of this colour are reported as being non-scented.

Sent this thread to my Czech mushroom guru who also thinks Stropharia - she has them in her woods. She sent me this link: http://bit.ly/uqIgkF

It seems to be growing on what you describe as well.....

Thanks anyway folks. Cannot take another picture as they have turned pale and most of them have gone.

Thanks to you too Owdboggy - trying to identify mushrooms is one of my favourite occupations! Good thing I live in the Czech Republic part of the year where about 80% of the population can do pretty well at it :-)

I didn't notice the remains of a ring, which Clitocybe don't have. Back I go into the naughty corner. Poisonous then. Shame.