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The second mushroom was frequently seen in the grass next to the dung and looked very similar in shape, but the cap and stem were dark and the caps were slightly larger. My first identification is for Panaeolus rickenii (wrong, see below). I could not get a closer look at the mushrooms because of the barbed wire and electric fence. A third mushroom was also seen in the dung. I think this latter one was a species of Conocybe. The fourth species has a flattened cap and was much larger, estimated at over 60 mm cap diameter with a stem that could not be seen.
Image
2 (above):
Panaeolus
papilionaceus var
papilionaceus.
You
were close! P. rickenii (now called P.
acuminatus) is more purple brown.
Bioimages
image link for this species
ID
by Malcolm Storey (BioImages)
on the
Fungi
of the British Isles (Yahoo Group)
27
October 2006
Mushrooms
discovered in the afternoon were a dozen the white-capped species growing
on horse droppings piled up on the edge of the field by the Steyning Road,
Old Shoreham. The white stems of this species were hollow. This was the
Snowy
Ink Cap, Coprinus
niveus.
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They looked like Panaeolus sphinctrinus to my inexperienced eye.
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On
the horse dung, next to the footpath approach to Mill
Hill from the Waterworks Road, there were now two species of fungi.
One was a species of Conocybe (see
below)
and
the other (with the black gills in the photograph above) looked like Panaeolus
sphinctrinus ? to my inexperienced
eye.
23 May 2004
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On the edge of the horse's field on the south-west approaches of Mill Hill, (south of the A27 main road), on the pile of dung next to the footpath two clumps of about 20 mushrooms were growing. It is a species of Conocybe. There are seventy nine species of Conocybe found in Britain.
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There were scores of
these dome-shaped
Panaeolus sphinctrinus mushrooms by the dried cow pats on Anchor Bottom, near Upper Beeding. |
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