Here is a new mushroom find for this #fungifriday by @ewkaw
I found a strange new mushroom I haven't seen before. The cap was quite interesting with these rough brown scales.
Older versions of it seem to become lighter and it has a sort of conical cap.
It has rained here and some of them only halfway bloomed before drying out. Here you can see it has white gills and a fairly rough stem stock.
Here is a really good specimen for identification. You can see the light brown rough cap, a fiberous stem ring and the rough stock. It also lacks a large bulbous stem base so it is not an amanita.
Here is their pinning form. At first glance they remind me of ink caps.
For reference here are some actual ink caps, very similar indeed, but ink caps start turning black and don't have white gills.
In the end the best identification I could find was the deadly dapperling for this mushroom. It's Latin name is Lepiota brunneoincarnata and its contains a toxic called alpha-amanitin that causes liver damage. A few people die of these every year as the dapperling can look like many other edible mushrooms.
The only other mushroom I was able to find was some dried out ramaria. I'm hoping fall rains will bring out crown tipped coral so I can harvest some for pasta.
In the meantime the forest is looking quite nice in the milder weather from fall. Hopefully the fall mushrooms will be bountiful this year.
That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)