UK: Fungi

[spiralsheep]

Not much to say about these beyond: enjoy! :-)

The amethyst deceiver, Laccaria amethystina.



The artist's bracket or the southern bracket, a Ganoderma (artist's/adspersum or southern/applanatum, dunno which).

Comments

[slippy]

I like those purple ones. So pretty and weird!

[spiralsheep]

Yes, they look like body parts to me, heh. Another mushroom called wood blewits, Lepista nuda, are a darker bluer purple and look quite rude when they first raise their heads.

[lark_ascends]

Cool!

[spiralsheep]

:-)

[lavendertook]

Pretty pinky-purples!!! Love that tree in the second!

[spiralsheep]

Isn't that tree trunk absolutely fabulous?! I LOVE gnarly old trees! :-)

[firefly99]

I've never seen amethyst deceiver in the flesh. It's so beautiful - what an awesome colour.

Are you planning on eating them? They're apparently quite good, and there's only one dangerous species you can confuse it for (which has white gills instead of purple).

[spiralsheep]

The colour was amazing. I walked around a corner, surrounded by greys and browns and subdued greens, and then... PURPLE!

I usually only eat wild fungi that are either especially tasty or large enough to be worth the effort. The amethyst deceivers were small to tiny, the caps have no strong flavour while the stems are woody, and they were at the side of a path on a dog-walking route, so I wasn't tempted (although my ID was definite because, as you say, the fresh fruiting bodies are distinctive).

For reference for fungiphages: the lilac fibrecap (Inocybe geophylla var. lilacina) is poisonous to humans and people do occasionally misidentify them.