Six real garden cases about identifying fungi in Hartungviken, Sweden.
Six real garden cases about identifying fungi in Hartungviken, Sweden.
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The photograph shows brown caps with yellow, porous undersides growing in gravel: a bolete, rather than a slimy pest. The main question here is not the exact species, but why it appears and what you can do about it in late August.
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It grew on the ground in pine woodland and has clearly decurrent gills, but that combination is not enough to make it suitable for the table. The photographs show why it should be left alone.
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Your mushroom has a brown cap, but the key feature is a distinctly yellow, porous underside rather than gills. That rules out several common guesses and brings us fairly close to the right group.
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The broken mushroom shows several clear features together: a vivid orange cap, white gills and a sheath-like base to the stem. The combination makes the group unusually clear here.
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You found brown, slightly funnel-shaped mushrooms with gills in Hartungviken, Sweden, in early September. At first they look fairly recognisable, but a detail missing from the photograph determines whether they are milkcaps, brittlegills or something else entirely.
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You found a beige-yellow mushroom with a depressed cap in moss near Hartungviken, Sweden. From above it resembles a milkcap, but without seeing the underside or checking for milky fluid, the species cannot be identified.
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