It’s early yet in the season for a glut of fungi, and with the weather generally dry…and yet…and yet… here’s some from our walk on 26th September 2026 for all you fungi fiends. As before, I only give an id if I’m fairly sure. This week I’ve enlisted Google Images’ help on that. Enjoy
26th September 2026
🔼 The easiest to identify (in my opinion) are the Inkcaps, though they come in several shapes and sizes… 🔽⏬
26th September 2026
26th September 2026
🔼 Shaggy Inkcap 🔽 Apparently, according to Google Images, these are Ornate Stalked Boletes
26th September 2026
26th September 2026
🔼 Shaggy Parasol, another easy one to recognise 🔽 Possibly a Blusher, which belongs to the Amanita family
26th September 2026
26th September 2026
🔼 !!!! Death Cap!!!!❌ Deadly Poisonous!!!! 🔽 Seen here growing on the steep railway cutting
26th September 2026
26th September 2026
🔼 What, more inkcaps? These are Fairy Inkcaps aka Fairy Bonnets 🔽 Southern Brackets shedding it’s rusty-red spores
26th September 2026
That’s all for now, folks. See you all next week!
More poisonous fungi… The death cap is very poisonous.
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Very. It amuses me in an ironic sort of way. We find lots of Fly Agaric kicked and destroyed (Red cap, white dots, pixies sit on them in fairy tales) yet, while they might upset the stomach, and certainly will cause hallucinations, they’re not killers. Yet the death cap they leave alone. Silly people 🤪
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That’s really so silly… 🤪 I’m wondering why they leave the death caps alone.
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Cos they don’t recognise them. In fact, they’re more likely to be mistaken on first sight as flat cap breakfast mushrooms
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So that’s why. I totally agree, they’re not instantly recognizable. 👍
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And even with a Google identification, I wouldn’t risk going any place near them!
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Me neither! 😉
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They are very colorful! And you know they’re names too
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Um, not all of them. I Googled some. And I wouldn’t trust the Google identities 100%
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But you know more than most people.
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Let’s just say I know where to go for the information. And I’ll go looking whereas lots of people wont
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Yes, that is exactly the difference
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Yep! For which I thank my parents. They provided a wonderful library of reference books when I was a kid
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Hmm, interesting… I think I can see some tiny fairies. No? 😉
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Oh, I often see fairies, though more often pixies, when hunting fungi
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Love the Fairy Inkcap and the Shaggy Parasol; they somehow go together! Oh, what it must have been like when people were first taste testing fungi; the ultimate game of Russian Roulette!
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I think…but dint know for certain… that the nasty species have a bitterness to them. And I guess if you’re experimenting, you try a very small morsel at first. If you then see little green people, that mushroom is probably a psilocybin!
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🪄 🍄🟫
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Amazing how everyone knows the flay agaric, yet few can recognise the magic mushroom. Think the shape of a Scythian hat!
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And that Death cap looks so innocent !!
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Just waiting…. 😝😨😬
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🤣
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You know, I cannot pass by fungi and not think of you.
I love the fabulous selection you share wit us.
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