Yellow Shrooms.

Found these little fellows growing with a Larch. Anyone know what they're called?

Love the colour but they look dangerous, as do most! I noticed the little black roots or Hyphae are creeping over the rim in this wet weather.

Peziza orange (Aleuria aurentia) edible medium

Thanks Pascal. Not quite enough for a hearty breakfast. Here's a couple more.

I'd love to see more Fungi posted here.

nice and love what natures bring

will baddeley wrote:I'd love to see more Fungi posted here.

But Will - you are a fun guy!

These i had for lunch.

These i grew and had for lunch.

This one i didn't eat.

fiona wrote:

will baddeley wrote:I'd love to see more Fungi posted here.

But Will - you are a fun guy!

I thought someone might crack the Fun guy joke but I wasn't expecting it to be you Fiona.....Shame on you.

We spent a few days camping at Sandringham the other week and these fungii were popping up all the time.

Handsome fly agaric Geoff. The brown one looks like a panther cap.

Smithy wrote:These i had for lunch.

All that lot for lunch?.........You must fart like a Wizard!

Smithy wrote:This one i didn't eat.

I know this one can be eaten and has been eaten for millennia. 20 raw mushrooms can kill but smaller amounts have been used as an intoxicant. Drink the urine of an animal, or someone that has eaten this mushroom, and you will be just as intoxicated as them. Think I'll give that one a miss.

will baddeley wrote:

Smithy wrote:These i had for lunch.

All that lot for lunch?.........You must fart like a Wizard!

I did share, the mushrooms that is.

Is it possible to explain the fun guy joke thing to non-britains? I have always fun in exploring british humour....

claas wrote:Is it possible to explain the fun guy joke thing to non-britains? I have always fun in exploring british humour....

Mushrooms and toadstools as they are called here, come under the name of Fungus or Fungi (plural), pronounced Fun Guy. More of a play on words than a joke... eh Fiona.
There's another one, that could be work related ( Staff versus management) where you say "I'm being treated like a mushroom"..........Kept in the dark and fed bulls**t.

Oh, understand.

There isn´t possibly a sexual allusion in it, such as: "If you have too much fun, guy, you may get yourself some fungi" ?

Hopefully not stating the obvious

claas wrote:Oh, understand.

There isn´t possibly a sexual allusion in it, such as: "If you have too much fun, guy, you may get yourself some fungi" ?

Hopefully not stating the obvious

bonjour,

Some cracking pics in this thread. Kudos to those concerned.

I recently saw 'fungi' being used as accents and thought it looked pretty nifty, so I'd appreciate any advice on the best way of growing them. F'rinstance, where would one obtain Fly Agaric spores, assuming you'd never seen one in the wild and didn't know where/have the time to look?

BTW, this request has nothing whatsoever to do with my recent wife-based aggravation. Honest!

And sorry Will, but there's no chance of me accidentally eating any either, I hate the damn things. Can't see why people want to eat mould anyway.

Growing fly agarics are going to be really tricky as they grow symbiotically with trees so recreating it in the lab is very hard. All the conditions need to be perfect for it to happen. One way of trying to get a mushroom to grow is to mash the mushroom up in water and pour on the ground and hope for the best.
I don't come across fly agarics that often but i've seen more this year than ever. we took a spore print of one for a nature project with my son. That is just putting the mushroom on a piece of paper over night just to see the colour and shape of the print. if i come across any more this year I'll send them to you to try and do some thing with.

taking cutting of mushrooms can be done by taking a slice of a growing mushroom and growing on some agar. it all has to be very clean at the beginning stage .
Some mushrooms prove near impossible to grow by the experts.

This man is a genius with growing mushrooms.
http://www.fungi.com/

these always show up on my big elm after heavy rain