Fungi on a tree stump? - Identified as Silky Rosegill

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      I'm still stumped by this one (literally).

      There was a less mature one still within it's mottled brown Veil, but just starting to break through ...

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      And a close up of one (as big as a dinner plate) showing the distinctive mottled brown Volva ...


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      Any ideas @Zigs ? I took a sheet of paper to check out the spores on this morning's dog walk, but we ended up taking another route.
       
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      My first thought was one of the Amanitas, but it's not in my book :noidea:
       
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      They are probably Volvariella of some sort... Grow on old stumps, volva but no ring, flattened cones, pinkish gills.

      Most likely V. bombycina, the Silky Rosegill. Uncommon, so nice find!
       
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        I tried to look up V. bombycina, was looking under B though, forgot the V in front, no wonder I couldn't find it :doh: :biggrin:
         
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        That looks like it, will try and take a spore print.
         
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        Says spore deposit pinkish :)
         
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          Will only try taking one in-situ.

          Says they are edible, but no way would I pick them, just enjoy seeing them virtually every day whilst out dog walking. Around 2:00 to 3:00 pm they are illuminated by shafts of sunlight in their small 'grotto' like setting on the northern edge of a copse where the top of that huge, rotten Horse Chestnut has fallen and created a mini clearing.
           
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          I got edible but not recommended.

          While we're at it, even an edible species will be poisonous if it's growin on a Yew tree :yikes:

          Not that that one looks like a Yew, but just saying.
           
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          I asked John Wright about that, as we were in a local churchard next to a Yew tree at the time, and he thought it wouldn't make any difference. (And that's despite mushrooms being notorious for the likes of absorbing high levels of Chernobl radioactivity, herbicides sprayed alongside railway tracks, etc.).

          Anyway, the field mushrooms in my garden were very early this year, and I've got a feeling that puffballs will might also appear very soon.
           
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            Now about 20 of them on the stump (some are around the back). I'm now taking Dog past here at least every other day as it's next to where I'm gathering Elderberries, plus I've found a new Puffball location just a couple of minutes away.

            Taken on my phone, haven't been taking a camera as my bag has been so full of foraged stuff.

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