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FB333
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UK Lib' ID Please
#15383629 - 11/17/11 11:06 AM (12 years, 3 months ago) |
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Hi there,
Relativly new to hunting and this is my first post on this forum (Hello . Although, I have been using the wonderful wealth of information on this website for some time now.
I have been scouring the fields etc near me for the past few weeks. Found lots of mushrooms, none of them what i thought to be liberty caps.
I was on the brink of giving up looking for them, when today I spotted a field near my place of work. I had a quick look acroos the field from the gate. It looked perfect...
Then i glanced to the left and i saw what i thought to be some caps, just poking up through the grass. Temptation got the better of me and I hopped the gate quickly and rounded up these 5 specimins.
I am fairly sure they are libs. Although, only 2 seem to have the prominent nipple. but they are all the sAme colour to my untrained eye and were all gathered in same square metre of each other.
If these are libs then it looks like i have possibly found my own 'spot' I plan to visit it agian on saturday morning 
Habitat: Pasture grassy field
Gills: Brown
Stem: 2" long, 1mm diameter, whitish yellow, solid, thin.
Cap: 8 - 20mm, light brown to dark brown on the margins, conical, little nipple present on 2 of the specimins,
Spore print color: Waiting for spore print
Bruising: No apparant brusing, definatly no blue brusing that i can see 
Sorry for the poor image, was taken on my phone in dimming light.

Can post more if needed?
Thanks in advance for any help offered
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The Thinker

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Re: UK Lib' ID Please [Re: FB333]
#15383643 - 11/17/11 11:10 AM (12 years, 3 months ago) |
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Psathyrella
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p-nut
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Registered: 11/17/11
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I'm also new to this, and found these same guys (same species, not same individuals, obviously). I hoped they were, but feared they were not. If you are in the UK, it seems that it has only recently become cool enough for the semilanceata, at least where I live. Having at last made their appearance, they really are quite distinctive in appearance Good Luck!
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FB333
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Re: UK Lib' ID Please [Re: p-nut]
#15383698 - 11/17/11 11:26 AM (12 years, 3 months ago) |
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Ah thanks guys.
So these are definatly not libs?
These mushrooms felt soo different to all the other lib lookalikes I encoutered too. All the look-a-likes in the past have been brittle, delicate little things. The ones pictured were hardy and tough feeling. Now the caps are starting to dry, you would almost describe it as 'leathery'.
I was soo excited too... Ahwell... Looks like I gotta carry on hunting then
Edited by FB333 (11/17/11 11:32 AM)
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p-nut
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Re: UK Lib' ID Please [Re: FB333]
#15383802 - 11/17/11 11:54 AM (12 years, 3 months ago) |
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I cannot tell you what they are. The Thinker says no, and that is good enough for me. When I found what I feel are incontrovertably semilanceata, they really looked like what they oughtta.
Edited by p-nut (11/17/11 03:05 PM)
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