Fungi Friday 🍄

My mum was working on her garden when she found these mushrooms growing around the stump of an old willow tree.

Just like that willow, I am also stumped.

iNaturalist, as it so often does with fungi photos, has yet to offer any support on even approaching an ID.

The colour is interesting – you would think perhaps honey fungus but there are no large trees suitable to host Armillaria nearby, and it doesn’t look slimy enough.

The slugs and snails are fans, which says nothing.

Could they scalycaps? I don’t know, but generally don’t see a clear resemblance to either golden or shaggy, and maybe it is too early?

What they are, though, is part of a July fungi flush in England. We’ve had a sort of mild and quite wet July, despite it being the source of some of the hottest days ever recorded in human earth time.

Thanks for reading.