Another mushroom chalked up for my garden. This one was growing from earth beside an old fence with its mycelium on the wood, I think. Small brown mushrooms are hard to identify and this one didn’t give me enough spores for a spore print, but I’ve very tentatively assigned it as Psathyrella lutensis…  probably completely wrong!

I’ve been looking under some fir trees in Ladywell for a long time, expecting to find something interesting, and this year I did. I already recorded the Wood Blewits in my blog on 20th Nov, but I got some nice pictures this time. Apart from the ones under the fir trees they were also growing in a completely different place near some large sycamores, so that’s three different sites where they’ve appeared in the park this year.

The Agaricus is a bit of a poser… Agaricus gennadii is the closest match I can find. I also saw one of these on the 20th in the same place, but with a much longer stem. (This time the stem was very squat and bulbous.) The pictures were very poor on that occasion due to the fading light, but I’ve included one, for comparison. My spores are too round, they should be elliptical, but I can’t find any type of Agaricus with my spores and with the other characteristics being correct. Also the smell is perhaps questionable – it should be strong and unpleasant. One of mine did smell unpleasant and the other didn’t really, but my two specimens were very old and that makes the smell evidence a bit unreliable.