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Trooping Funnel #fungus

Infundibulicybe geotropa with visitor. Picture taken November 2. #troopingfunnel #nature #naturephotography #woods #mushroom #fungi #mushrooms

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Cambridgeshire, UK, November 2023

Trooping funnels (Infundibulicybe geotropa)

These lovely fungi are substantial and delicious, and often found in large numbers, making them an excellent one to look out for in autumn and well into winter.

We found these while out walking with a couple of friends who wanted to get into mushroom hunting, and they were very pleased with the find, including the find of the 'baby' funnels at the base of the larger ones!

Care should be taken to distinguish these fungi from the livid pinkgill (Entoloma sinuatum), a quite severely poisonous (though rarely deadly) mushroom. Luckily, along with some other distinguishing features, trooping funnels have a white spore print, while the livid pinkgill's is, predictably, pink, meaning they can easily be ruled out with certainty.

I made these into a creamy tarragon pasta sauce, delicious.

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I spent a while painting mushrooms. These are all mushrooms found in Britain and enjoy varying degrees of edibility, and were chosen purely based on how quirky I found the common name to be.  

Acrylics 

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Arnos Grove, London, UK, October 2019

Trooping funnels (Clitocybe geotropa)

These tall funnels can be distinguished from common funnels (Clitocybe gibba) by their longer stems, firmer flesh, solid stem, and lack of wavy margin at the edge of the cap. Though you should always aim for a positive identification, distinguishing between these two is not strictly essential, as common funnels are also edible.

The cap of this mushroom is firm and substantial, making it a good edible, though relatively flavourless. It was delicious, however, cooked into a pumpkin and sage risotto with a few oyster mushrooms I also found along the way.

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This morning’s breakfast was mixed mushrooms with (vegan) butter, garlic and thyme in wraps with beetroot greens. 

Top left - oyster mushrooms Top right - common puffballs (outer skin removed) Bottom left - trooping funnels Bottom right - dryad’s saddle

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Fun guys return - the 2015 survey #fungi

Fun guys return – the 2015 survey #fungi

    Trooping Funnel, Clitocybe geotropa. Picture taken November 1.

  I’m hugely grateful to the Sussex Fungi Group who returned for a second year to survey the wood. Last year pouring rain, this year fog. (more…)

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Trooping Funnel  (Monk's head)

This is a young Clitocybe geotropa (Tricholomataceae), commonly known as the Trooping Funnel, a woodland mushroom with an exceptionally long stipe, often seen in large numbers, either in arcs or even complete fairy rings, sometimes many metres in diameter.

The Trooping Funnel is very common throughout Britain and Ireland and is also found across mainland Europe, and in North America.

In 2003 it was proposed the new genus Infundibulicybe to include several species of Clitocybe, among them was C. geotropa, so this species would be synonym to Infundibulicybe geotropa.

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Photo credit: ©Steve Garrington | Locality: Wales. UK