Can you please identify this mishroom/fungi?

[mikiejack]

Hello.
After the recent wet weather in the uk, I wonder if anyone can identify this mushroom/fungi I seem to have in my garden.

Thanks!

 

[Crabbergirl]

I have an identification book for mushrooms and fungus at home. I will make a point to bring it with me tomorrow to see if we can figure out what it is. looks like a toad stool. Are the colors in the picture pretty accurate?

 

[mikiejack]

Thanks crabber, and the colours are very accurate.

 

[RonsGarden]

Bumping this thread up for Nancie to see!

 

[Crabbergirl]

Thanks Ron...Duh I forgot I apologize. Writing HUGE note for myself. Will post on Monday

 

[Crabbergirl]

I just forwarded the picture to my son. He says it looks like hebeloma family possibly a crustuliniforme, not edible, has odd smell and the cap is convex rather than concave.

Is the cap a rounded button type or is it sunken in?

If you have a view from the top we can be more accurate. I will be back on Monday.

 

[mikiejack]

Thanks - I am away in the lake district until mid next week, but I will get a better picture next week.

Thanks for the help so far.

 

[mr_yan]

I'll just chime in here. Becareful going by color on a computer screen with differences in monitors. I've run into several cases where the same photo displays differently across different computers even different laptops of the same model and age.

 

[Crabbergirl]

Yes Mr yan, I agree. Fungi identification is so difficult when you have the actual specimen let alone trying to asses the colors in a picture. Not to mention there are so many details to look at that a picture cannot relay

 

[RonsGarden]

..then there are the look-a-likes! One poisonous and the other edible...but which is which!?
I'd leave them to the experts!

 

[Wombat]

I just found this thread and thought I'd add something interesting, the pharmacists in France are trained to id the poisonous fungi from the edible. It's quite commonplace over there to be waiting at the counter for a prescription and have others presenting mushrooms of all shapes, sizes and colours for identification. It was quite a novelty for us at the time, we wondered what on earth was going on and wondered whether we'd come to the right place

 

[mikiejack]

What a responsibility that would be wombat, but a wonderful service at the same time.

I have no intention of eating my find, I even wore disposable gloves, and washed my hands after. Overly cautious I am interested in identification purely to learn about them, and potentially stop further ones growing. It's no doubt due to a drainage issue with the massive amount of rain we have had here over the last 2 months, as moss has become an issue too. Lots of raking and reseeding to do soon.