Identification: Ubiquitous

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  1. David Tang

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    Can't be certain if these are Mycena or Galerina !
    Too embarrassing to ask again and again.
    But, please kindly comment once more. Thank you.
     

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    Frog Generous Contributor Forums Moderator 10 Years

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    All good David - I think it is more advantageous to make guesses and ask questions repeatedly than not, to do the work of adding up evidence, making deductions, and above all getting in that required repetition, which is needed for these various different mushrooms to start looking more familiar, to start becoming more recognizable. But it does take time - even, I have noticed, for the rare folks with photographic memories, it still takes time for learning how to interpret what one is seeing.

    In this case, you would need to determine the spore colour as a starting point. Either by taking a spore print or by looking for evidence of spores adhering to the stem or to a cap sitting under another cap.
    A white spore print would eliminate Galerina and take you to Mycena as well as some other genera of small pale mushrooms.

    Based on what I can see, this appears to be a Laccaria.
     
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    Thanks a lot.
    Now when I see the original foto in full size, I can see spores
    a shade lighter than the gills, but not white. So this is not Galerina.
     

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