I saw this bunch of fungi in Norwood Grove on Friday, at first I thought it could be the Scalycap, Pholiota squarrosoides, though it is more of a North American Fungi, failing that an atypical example of the Shaggy Scalycap, Pholiota squarrosa. The image doesn't do its sulphur yellowness justice, but it is both a sulphury yellow and has triangular shaped scales as befits the textbook description, it also has pale gills and no distinct odour. First-nature.com describes it as:
"yellow-ochre or straw-yellow; covered in upturned triangular brown scales in more or less concentric rings.Convex at first, the caps flatten with age but retain an in-rolled margin.
The cap flesh is very pale yellow, and it is quite firm."
Some sources say it's easily confused with the bioluminescent (meaning it has gills that glow in the dark!) honeyfungus, Armillaria mellea, which is admittedly much more common, but these ones don't have markedly dark rings at the centre of the cap, though they may be emerging. Maybe I should go back at night to see if they glow? Apparently they are bad news for the surrounding eco-system, so I hope they are not Honeyfungi. I guess they are more likely to be honeyfungus though.
" young shaggy parasols look identical to the poisonous Chlorophyllum molybdites (the mushroom that causes the most poisonings in North America yearly)."
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