Mushroom identification?

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Mushroom identification?

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Just came upon this on a bike ride. Any mycology experts on the forum? It was probably around seven inches tall.
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This one was next to it. I would have left it alone if I had seen it. #-o
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A better closeup of the cap. The lawn got mowed very soon after I saw it so I didn't get to see it develop any more than this.
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At first glans I think of Macrolepiota rhacodes, or some relative. The size, the scaleles fot and the ribs on the cap looks like Macrolepiota rhacodes, but I am just a little familier with the nordic mushrooms flora. Does it get pink/red when broken appart or scrached?
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Hi Kristian. I didn't get to see it get bruised but I'll keep a look out in the same area for another one. That looks pretty similar though. Thanks. :D
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Am I right in thinking this is another mushroom? The part at the top is very hard and the stem was all covered in mulch and dirt. It kept going down further than this which is almost as big as a sheet of printing paper. The bit at the top is about the size of very large peanuts.

I'd love to know if anyone knows what this is. I found it at the base of a viburnum when pulling weeds.
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Here it is in the ground
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It looks like a fungus but I have never seen anything like it. At least not over here in wales and we get a lot of strange fungi. The closest thing I know of would be the dead man's fingers fungus Xylaria polymorpha the habitat seems about right but most likely I am very wrong. Fungi are notoriously difficult to ID without a very specialised expert in the genre. There are many unidentified species and sub species, variable phenotype expression and I am more familiar with pasture species and certainly no expert. I just hope it helps at all with your research on its identity. It may also be something from the Geastraceae the star fungi, just not opened yet.
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