Fungi identification competition
Woodlore office member Harvey spotted this highly poisonous fungus on his recent Introduction to Bushcraft course. Is anyone able to identify it? The first correct answer wins a £10.00 Woodlore Voucher. Correctly identified by J. Deval.
Poisonous fungus found on our Intro course, identified as the Panther Cap (Amanita pantherina)
Field Staff member Ian Lawson (who led Harvey’s Introduction course and originally identified the Panther Cap shown above) has passed a photo onto us of a Fly Agaric which he found last year. Ian felt this would be useful to see as a handful of the comments we received had mentioned this species:
Fly Agaric (Amanita Muscaria)
This entry was posted on Thursday, July 8th, 2010 at 1:44 pm and is filed under Competitions.
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October 29th, 2011 at 3:03 pm
That is not a Panther cap…
It’s a Blusher (Amanita rubescens). You can see the pink discolouration panthers never do this. Plus panthers have a true whereas blushers don’t which you can also see in this photo.
July 13th, 2010 at 2:49 pm
Thanks J
July 12th, 2010 at 10:08 pm
Alison, don’t worry about it. It’s only a bit of fun and asking what it was on a forum is no different from looking it up in a book. At least it encourages discussion on other forums and creates interest in the subject. You have nothing to defend.
July 12th, 2010 at 2:19 pm
Hiya
). I also knew that I wouldn’t be the first back to this competition with the correct answer because I was asking others for their opinions first which hopefully shows I wasn’t aiming to win. In all honesty, I didn’t think there was a problem with asking for help with the id. If I had an expert friend who I could have shown a picture to would that have been different?
I just wanted to defend myself a little here. I’m the person that pasted the picture onto the Wildaboutbritain website but just want to explain why.
I have done quite a number of organised fungii forays, but find that the more I learn the less I’m confident about – it’s a very complicated world where the fungus is concerned. I already had a fair idea what I thought the fungus was before I posted onto the forum and perhaps should have mentioned that in the thread title – might have spared some blushes (no pun intended
I’m very sorry that this has been considered sneaky and I’m now considered the wrong kind of person – but I’m really not. In hindsight, I just went about this the wrong kind of way and now feel incredibly silly. So sorry again for this embarrassing indiscretion – I hope I haven’t angered anybody too much.
In my little knowledge of the mushroom world, I’m still surprised to find that this is a panther cap rather than the Blusher considering they usually appear much later in the year. Is it common for them to appear in Spring too?
July 12th, 2010 at 9:17 am
Thanks for all your entries everyone. A lot of you got it right, but it was J. Deval who got in there first with the correct answer – Panther Cap – winning a £10.00 voucher.
July 10th, 2010 at 9:33 pm
Is it a Panther Cap?
July 10th, 2010 at 8:16 pm
It looks like some type of fly agaric, possibly amanita muscaria?
July 10th, 2010 at 1:12 pm
Panther Amanita
July 10th, 2010 at 5:43 am
Looks like a panthercap
July 9th, 2010 at 9:47 am
Hi, I think that in Latin this is Amanita pantherina and in Polish muchomor plamisty.
July 9th, 2010 at 2:25 am
Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria)?
July 8th, 2010 at 9:01 pm
Suspicious that it might be a Panthercap (Amanita pantherina), although not entirely convinced. Apparently it would be a little early to find it, and I can only see one ring belt and the stem doesn’t look scurfy. So maybe not! Just a guess.
July 8th, 2010 at 8:47 pm
Hi Woodlore,
Just a guess but it looks like a Panthercap(Amanita pantherina)but I only started looking and reading about Fungi recently so I’ll be interested to find out what it turns out to be!
Zoe
July 8th, 2010 at 8:13 pm
A young Panthercap?
July 8th, 2010 at 7:55 pm
I’m very much an amateur when it comes to identifying fungi, so have probably misidentified this one! Pretty sure it’s an amanite though and guessing at the Blusher because the flesh turns pink on contact with air, which seems to be happening on this specimen
July 8th, 2010 at 6:27 pm
Hi Peeps,
FYI not taking part in the comp for real! Don’t want to attract the biased related to an employee thing.
Anyway, I think that the fungus on the blog page could be an Amanita panthera – which is poisonous. However, it may be Amanita rubescens as it shows an underlying pinkish stain. It is poisonous when raw, but edible when cooked.
Have googled it it to confirm my thoughts and came across
the website below. You’ll see the competition idea is already attracting the wrong kind of people!
http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/forums/fungi-forums/71824-any-idea-what-fungus.html
Regards,
Deb Hume
July 8th, 2010 at 6:24 pm
It’s a Panther cap!
Isn’t it?
July 8th, 2010 at 5:37 pm
This looks like Blusher Amanita Rubescens to me which would fit with the time of year – that’s not highly poisonous though. Panther cap is very poisonous and looks similar, but that usually appears much later in the year.
July 8th, 2010 at 4:59 pm
This is the Amanita muscaria.
July 8th, 2010 at 4:53 pm
This is the Fly Amanita
July 8th, 2010 at 2:11 pm
I’ll have a bash at it; and say Panther Cap (Amanita pantherina)
July 8th, 2010 at 1:55 pm
Panther cap?