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Tavascarow

Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Posts: 8407
Location: South Cornwall

Posted: Mon Jun 01, 15 2:26 pm Post subject: Not likely to be edible but Wow!!!
Awesome Fungi Photography.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46249
Location: yes

Posted: Mon Jun 01, 15 4:36 pm Post subject:

neither of the blue ones look "edible"as such but they might be "wow"

the only uk one of that colour that i know of is rather interesting ,it has had several name changes but perhaps was called hyphaloma cyanesens (spp?)and looks a bit like the "plump one" might do if it grew up to have an upturned rim.the little blue ones have a similar shape to papilonicus (spp?) which are related to a few interesting species .

just cos they grow on trees ,unlike some of the other blue ones, might not rule out interesting alkaloid content.

iirc the blue colour is an oxidation product at least one of the relevant alkaloids.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 16005

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 15 7:41 am Post subject:
They are brilliant pictures. We found a blue one in the woods a year or so ago, but think it was more turquoise.

Falstaff

Joined: 27 May 2009
Posts: 1014

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 15 8:39 am Post subject:
Very nice Tc

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46249
Location: yes

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 15 11:43 am Post subject:
my favorite for "odd fungi"are the luminous slime molds that grow on damp fallen wood and glow like little glowsticks.

BahamaMama

Joined: 21 Sep 2006
Posts: 2315
Location: Away with the fairies

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 15 1:20 pm Post subject:
They look like sea creatures

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35057
Location: Devon

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 15 8:59 pm Post subject:
The purple one at the top is an amethyst deceiver. The lighting is very good on the pictures!

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46249
Location: yes

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 15 11:39 pm Post subject:

Jamanda wrote:

The purple one at the top is an amethyst deceiver. The lighting is very good on the pictures!

i thought that but i also remembered that shrooms that are edible in one place can have non edible lookalikes in other places .

this type of confusion has harmed a few chinese shroomers in europe

it does look like an a d

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 16005

Posted: Wed Jun 03, 15 6:00 am Post subject:
I thought it was that too, but not that good at fungus ID so didn't like to say so.

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