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Oll
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Wavy Cap Lookalikes - UK North Lincolnshire
#27011877 - 10/30/20 11:03 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Hi, over the past week I've been looking in my local woods for wavy caps daily. To me, the weather seems perfect, plenty of showers all week keeping the ground moist. So far I've not come across a single wavy cap that I am aware of, have found a few that resemble them slightly. I have also being going through the local village checking all front gardens with woodchips and haven't found any there either. I am unsure whether they have spread this far up north as I have read that they were first introduced down near London. Any thoughts or information from anybody who lives or has searched around here will be greatly appreciated.
I went out today and found what I believe to be the closest lookalike yet, all the others I have found have had brown stems, however these have white ones, They also have the very wavy caps.
 As you can see this one has what looks like the right coloured cap to me, and the right stem. I found it growing on decaying wood on a new path I hadn't yet been down in the woods. This one, along with a few more had brown coloured gills which some of the others I found nearby didn't.
This is a closeup of another mushroom I found growing very close by, I squeezed the stem of this and cut the cap in half, however I didn't take any photos as the colour didn't change at all and I was a bit fed up at this point. This one has noticeably different coloured gills to the first picture which leads me to believe it could be different? I am unsure though as this was growing very close by.

 Any information appreciated.
On another note, I went looking for liberty caps today as I had decided after this that wavy caps can't have spread up here yet. We only have horse fields around here so I went and had a look through all that came to mind that is near me. I am yet to find a single mushroom in medium length grass, let alone an active one. I am unsure whether I am doing something wrong or whether I am just incredibly unlucky.
Sorry that this post has become a bit of a rant towards the end, any advice or information will be greatly appreciated. Would love some help on where to look as I might not be doing this right.
Thanks for the read and also your time.
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Alan Rockefeller
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Re: Wavy Cap Lookalikes - UK North Lincolnshire [Re: Oll]
#27012146 - 10/30/20 01:26 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Could be Pholiota.
How about Pholiota velaglutinosa?
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Joie


Registered: 10/17/09
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Pretty, I think in Lincs it is P. astragalina.
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