Howdy all, I should start off by saying I will not be ingesting these mushrooms so do not worry on that front.

That said I’d like to hear some opinions.

These were found today in an area with lots of semilanceata, and I think there’s a chance they are just that, albeit slightly atypical.

However, they were going very close to some larger mushrooms of the same colour that definitely weren’t semilanceata. I should have got some photos of the other mushrooms but didn’t think about it while out in the field.

The photos here don’t quite capture how golden-orange some of them look, I will post a side by side with some libs in the comments.

Part of the reason I am suspicious of these is that they were found in the same area I found these a few years ago https://www.reddit.com/r/Semilanceata/s/evx9jdbFaC

At the time of that post I was advised to send them off for testing, a little embarrassingly, I didn’t have the money for that at the time so unfortunately that mystery was left unresolved.

While these ones don’t fully match the ones from last time there was quite a variance within the species from last time (didn’t pick all of them) to the point where these found today made me think of the ones from last time.

In my thousands of miles across Dartmoor the spot today is the only place I have found these ones from last time, and possibly this time provided these aren’t just unusual semilanceata.

Why I’m uncertain of these ones:
Other than the extra golden-orange in the colour, and lack of nipple, and the fact they were growing so close to some definitively non libs, they don’t smell quite right. I’m normally pretty comfortable sniffing testing questionable finds and while these weren’t far off, they don’t smell quite right to me.

Interested to hear what other people say, maybe I’m second guessing myself too much/hoping they are the same as last time to finally resolve that mystery for myself, or maybe they are something other than semilanceata.

Tl:dr - what do we think these are?

Its so much a lib shape but not the colors...

Im a newbie and I have lots of wet libs caught this morning and i want to know the best way to dry them out to avoid mould or rot please?🙏