Mushrooms Growing at REU (Daren Cilau)

[KJRyan]

Hi all,

Looking for some information/ identification of some mushrooms found growing at the Restaurant

During a camp at Hard Rock this weekend it we decided to visit REU, when we got there we found a couple of mushrooms growing and the remains of numerous more. I was wondering if anyone could identify them and work out how long they had been growing there.
By the black marks/rotting mushrooms i would guess there has been several generations.
interestingly we found some more at the end of Painkiller with a rather sophisticated root system (some a few meters long).

Photos Attached

Any Ideas?
Kieran

 

[T pot 2]

Once found a banana palm growing in a cave in Mexico

 

[mrodoc]

Spores have obviously been carried in from the surface and there is enough organic material to feed the mycelium.  If they were Psilocybe it would improve the Hard Rock parties.

 

[AR]

There are some members of that particular fungal family that favour rotting wood, so could potentially grow underground... :alien:

 

[Keris82]

We found some mushrooms like this in the brackla tunnels too! There were also some black ones s different shape but the pics are on another device

 

[smollett]

They look kinda similar to dung roundheads but impossible to be tell without more info. A photo of the gills is very useful. If you are able to take one out in one piece you can do a spore print which also helps to narrow it down. The dark marks underneath are likely the spores and this tallies with roundhead mushrooms (dark purple).

 

[tomferry]

With the narrow stem and that shape top ,  I second spore printing is really the only way to get a true identification it?s very easy sheet of paper a pint glass and time .

 

[pwhole]

They look like they might be (very undernourished) mica cap fungi, which grow on dead wood, mainly tree trunks, but I guess there's dead wood underground. They're technically edible, though sound quite bland:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprinellus_micaceus

 

[ChrisJC]

I see a shovel in one picture. So the real question is whether you broke through into Agen Allwedd?

Chris.

 

[rich]

The last* camp at REU was March 2019, but I know there's been the odd trip there since.

The last* time anyone dug at Painkiller was Oct 2015. Haven't heard of anyone going there since. They might have done, but it's not a common tourist route.

* assuming no one has been doing some "stealth" camping