You're welcome, Steve. I had to have a good scour of Richard Phillips' tome myself to even take a guess. Luckily there are some examples of 'gone over' caps on someof the specimen plates!
Re that last one: possibly an old sppecimen of Ivory or Fool's Funnel. If it is either treat with caution. Both are deadly according to Phillips .....and common.
Fungi: Shaggy Scalycap - photo Candle Snuff - photo Fly Agaric Deceiver Yellow Russula Blackish-purple Russula Sulphur Tuft Turkey Tail Also one I cant identify - see 3rd photo. Any help with ID appreciated. Hi Steve
Dragonflies 2 Black Darter
Hi Steve, the best match I can find for the 3rd photo based on gills, stem, colour & cap shape is 'Rufous Milkcap'. Lez
Fungi: Shaggy Scalycap - photo Candle Snuff - photo Fly Agaric Deceiver Yellow Russula Blackish-purple Russula Sulphur Tuft Turkey Tail Also one I cant identify - see 3rd photo. Any help with ID appreciated.
Fungi that I could identify: Another patch of 6 Fly Agaric found White Saddle Blackish-Purple Russula Brown Roll Rim Brown Birch Bolete Bolete eater Common Earthball Stinking dapperling? Lactarius rufus Tricholoma fulvum
Plants: Orange hawkweed (Fox and cubs) in flower - very late
Dragonflies: Common and Black Darters
-- Edited by Steven Nelson on Saturday 15th of October 2022 09:09:56 PM
Looks like a really good year for Fly Agaric. A total of at least 55 specimens in four locations including one cluster of at least 32 specimens at different stages of growth, some of which were really big measuring approx 15-20cm across the cap and similar height. I dont recall ever seeing any this size before.
Some good numbers of other species as well. Those that I could identify included:
Orange Birch Bolette Birch Bolette Brown Roll Rim Common Puffball Girdled Knight Clouded Funnel Deceiver Yellow Russula Lactifluus controversus ?
Also a few dragonflies in the late sunshine Common Darter Black Darter
-- Edited by Steven Nelson on Thursday 13th of October 2022 10:58:07 PM
Field 62 around midday today had in excess of 150 Large White Butterflies flitting low over the rapeseed crop that has now gone to seed. Quite a spectacle.