is this a death cap??

Wow that looks like a turtle shell! No idea what it is but i bet It's one I won't forget. Where did you see that??

 

Funnily enough on the walk back home from the fungi course I was on it was literally on the main road next to a bus stop in Swanwick, Hampshire huge isn't it:OUCH: I didn't feel too bad about uprooting it as it was basically on it's way out having already offloaded it's spores, in fact the one next to it was rotten through however I only found that out after I had put my hand through it

PS: I didn't realise you were using a phone! are you on wifi or 3G? I shall be more considerate and post thumbnails next time:o

 

I'd hijack anyones thread, ask Pete

Looks like a White Cracking Bolete to me.

 

I thought Bolete when I first looked too, but then the Stipe accessed a part of my Brane that said "Charbonnier"

 

Haha quality

Yea I'm on 3g so they say I'm with Orange so I'm normally a few minutes behind everyone else lol!

 

I'm pretty sure you're joking, but just in case you're not, I must point out:

* A mature deathcap contains enough poison to ensure certain death for 4 healthy grown men.
* There is no known antidote to the toxin
* The only faint possibility of cure is a liver transplant within 3 days of consumption (so nil really) and before the other vital organs have been destroyed.
* It can take over a week to die from it. After the initial bad belly and vomiting, you get better apparently, so by the time you feel ill again you're doomed. Doomed I tell ya.

 

George Takei's "WOAH!" For 10 Minutes - YouTube

 

These were plentiful around the fishing lake that I worked at, always found around the silver birch...:thumb:

 

Polyporus squamosus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Could this be related to your fungus Aesculus?? I was actually trying to I.d one of Zigs when came accross this...

 

Thanks everyone I received a reply from Phil Bud (the guy who's running the 2 day course I'm on) and his opinion is that it's Boletus chrysenteron (Red Cracking Bolete)

Boletus chrysenteron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rogers Mushrooms - Boletus chrysenteron Mushroom - this is a fantastic website by the way created by Roger Phillips I think they even have an iPhone app

 

Ah yea cool certainly looks like it especially on Wikipedia pics! I'm looking at one in a book called a lawyers wig