(Swiss) Fungi #17

Oops! It appears I missed out a post from my Swiss fungi series!

Here it is!

I ought to work a bit more on my ID skills (and buy that book I read in 2022) but these ones look delicious! Like a mixture between a pancake and a crisp!

I should pay more attention to the underside of the fungi (as helps with IDing).  The one has great gills.

This fungus looks familiar, like one I photographed in Northumberland .

I was intrigued by the red layers of this one. 

I enjoyed the different strata on thi one.

Coprinas Comatas- Spent Shaggy Inkcap

I did know what this one was! It's a Shaggy Inkcap but at the end of its life.

Such a long stalk/stem. CBC spotted this one.

We were in a dreadful hurry running through a forest path downhill as I spied this as we were trying to reach the hourly bus in order to get back to our chalet in order to be able to get changed and go out for dinner in Gstaad but I stopped to photograph this tiny clump. No idea what it was.

This was a Puffball or an Earthball (or a golfball???)

Gstaad-Gsteig was really the best region to visit for spotting interesting fungi!

I would very much like to go back!

xx
 

(Swiss) Fungi #15

Hi there! 

I shared the first of my Swiss fungi finds a few weeks ago and here's the next lot.

 I was very excited to spot a Boletus Edulis- Penny Bun, AKA the Cep. Amusingly found when I had a stopped in a little copse for a call of nature! These ones are edible and get their nick name from looking like a bread roll!

Above was a slightly older example! 

Below, I found a 

Red Cracked Bolete 

Above and below, a Purple Brittlegill

No idea what the one below was but it resembled a bird!

 Another I failed to identify was this shiny bronze one.

Another interesting one was this pink and pale yellow crackled top one

 Do you have a favourite from these?

(Swiss) Fungi #14

Hello there!

I am back from Northumberland and have spent the last two days sorting out things at home- still not perfect but a bit more sorted.

It's been a little while since I shared a fungi post and I thought I'd share some of the great variety of examples I saw in Switzerland on our Summer adventure.

The region of Gstaad/Gsteig where we spent some of our time had really interesting examples of fungi which actually served to distract me from some very scary downhill descents

This fungus looked really bloated. I'm not sure if the fungus in the background is a different variety from the one in the centre but I think the one in the centre is some sort of Earthball or Puffball.

This brown one may be some sort of Fly-Agaric variety but again I wasn't sure.

This beautiful orange/red example really resembled a tomato!

I was SO unbelievably lucky to see these two lilac shiny mushrooms. I happened to be walking slowly and bent down to tie my shoelaces and glanced to my left under a rocky-shelf in the woods and there they were.  They were really hard to photograph as it was quite dark but they were definitely lilac.  My friend thinks they are a Lilac Webcap.

Here's a Classic Fly Agaric. Chomped as usual!

I suspect this is a Boletus variety mushroom- the Cep! It's a little cracked but I thought it might be one!

Not 100% though! Cracked Cap Boletus perhaps?

I'll have some other fungi to show you from my Switzerland trip over the next few weeks.

Which one is your favourite?