Two small buds of Fugi

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exmarine · #1 Post by **exmarine** » Wed Sep 21, 2016 1:36 pm

Members your help is needed to identify this fungi the two small buds were growing in my field with no other fungi about. As soon as I picked the fungi it started to wilt. I have had a look through my fungi book but to no avail. Does anyone have any idea's? Thank you.
Sorry but my photos are not of the quality of Charles oh well!

billbillt · #2 Post by **billbillt** » Wed Sep 21, 2016 10:27 pm

I have no idea what this is, but your photos are very good..

BillT

rnabholz · #3 Post by **rnabholz** » Wed Sep 21, 2016 11:11 pm

Sorry, no help on the ID, but interesting structures in there.

Hope someone can chime in with help figuring out what you have.

Rod

apochronaut · #4 Post by **apochronaut** » Thu Sep 22, 2016 10:41 am

What were these attached to? Fungi, are actually fruiting buds, which are attached to a main plant. The main plant is usually growing on some highly nutritive substrate, such as dead wood, dung, or other organic matter. When you collected them, what was the material they were growing on? Were they side by side, or somewhat distant from each other?
If they are fungi, they will have some structure, which they make and release spores from. These kind of look, puffballish or bird's nest fungi-like, to me. The spores would be internal in such fungi. I collect mushrooms from time to time but have never seen ones quite like that, although I am in a climate with a much colder winter, so some of the fungi common in Europe cannot survive here.

billben74 · #5 Post by **billben74** » Thu Sep 22, 2016 7:17 pm

Nice pics, but I'm not any kind of mycologist.

Rylander · #6 Post by **Rylander** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 4:39 am

Hello Exmarine, it looks like a species of the genus Coprinus or Ink Cap, they wilt quickly and have black spores.

Rylander

apochronaut · #7 Post by **apochronaut** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 10:15 am

Was there a stalk on them?

exmarine · #8 Post by **exmarine** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 3:32 pm

They were growing about 5 feet apart from each other just on a grass field, there was no other fungi near the small plants. Thank you Rylander for the I. D. and apochronaut yes they were growing on a white stalk which as soon as I picked them they started to shrivel up. I still have them in a petri dish so will have a look at them later and come back to you both.
Thanks Guys!!

exmarine · #9 Post by **exmarine** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 3:49 pm

I have just remembered that they were very, very thin not dome shaped at all. They reminded me of a Chines cheap umbrella with the vein running from a centre point straight out almost flat. If that's any help.
Yes Apochronaut they were growing on a white stalk.

exmarine · #10 Post by **exmarine** » Sat Sep 24, 2016 5:45 pm

Looking through my small "Field Guide to Mushrooms and Toadstools" I have come across the actual fungi its Coprinus xanthotrix.
So Rylander you certainly know your fungi congrats my friend. I have taken a couple of shots of how they are decaying.