Holt Country Park & Holt Lowes

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Blackening Brittlegill (Russula nigricans)

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If anyone is reading this who is new to fungi this is where it's fascinating to see the development of an identification dependant on people's different knowledge and experience.

Inkstain Bolete (Cyanoboletus pulverulentus)

From Tony

Using Kibby ‘British Boletes with key to species’ everything fits except for a small discrepancy
with the stipe being only yellow right at the apex, reddish/pink for the rest, whereas yellow is
slightly more extensive in the description.) So probably best NOT to record it, just in case.

Tony L followed this up with

I will make a few more comments later but the bolete on the bank beyond the gate onto Holt Lowes was
B. luridiformis (formerly B. erythropus). B. pulverulentus is generally darker and more elongated and more
likely in woods. The finely punctate pattern on the stipe is fairly indicative of
B. luridiformis although in the
small specimen we found these had barely separated. Also, the blue staining is usually a darker blue.
And the final confirmation? Geoffrey Kibby, who was with us when we saw it, said it was
B. luridiformis!

to which tony replied

Thanks for your comments Tony (L). The total lack of red dots on the stipe had me going down the wrong path
but I always thought at the back of my mind that the specimen was perhaps a little young.


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Bubble Gum Fungus - Aromatic Pinkgill (Entoloma pleopodium)

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Beige Fibrecap (Inocybe sindonia)

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Cauliflower Fungus (Sparassis crispa)

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Crab Brittlegill (Russula xerampelina)

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Conifer Blueing Bracket (Postea caesia)

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Coral Spot Fungus (Nectria cinnabarina)

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False Saphron Milkcap (Lactarius deterrimus)

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Orange Peel Fungus (Aleuria aurantia)

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Plums & Custard (Tricholomopsis rutilans)

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Powderpuff Bracket (Postia ptychogaster)

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Purplepore Bracket (Trichapetum abietinum)

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Red Lead Roundhead (Leratiomyces ceres)

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From Anne

Root Rot (Heterobasidion annosum)

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Rusty Crust (Skeletocutis amorpha) became Postia stiptica

Anne commented
The spores were wrong for Skeletocutis. It must be a colourful Postia stiptica as the spores matched that species.
I guess the orange colour could have been a fungal infection?

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Skullcap Dapperling (Leucocoprinus brebissonii)

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Coral or White Fingered Slime Mold (Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa)

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Yellow Stagshorn (Calocera viscosa)

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Witch's Egg - Stinkhorn (Phallus impudicus) Egg

The egg itself has a jelly like feel. But the centre is quite hard and granular , tasting of radishes.

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Common Rustgill (Gymnopilus penetrans)

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Velvet Rollrim (Tapinella atrotomentosa) on a Pine Stump

Quite gorgeous sense of velvet on the stipe in the images above.

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Milk-white Brittlegill (Russula delica complex)

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Tony's initial comments on these

I took home some of those numerous small mycena (I think M. speirea was the initial thought) on the large flat stump towards the end of the day (in Holt CP). At first glance, I thought they might odd-looking Delicatula integrella & I tried to keep an open mind . . . they were very jelly like by the time I looked at them this morning and microscopy revealed nothing I could be convinced about. Did you get anywhere?

From Steve

Then to the group that has taken up much of my afternoon, this being the dramatic collection of small white fungi low down on the moss covered stump. They gave me much to think about as they looked nothing like anything that I was familiar with, they were very delicate but fortunately I had packed them with a lot of moss and placed them in the fridge as soon as I got home. They looked to my eyes very much like Mycenas so I used a combination of Mycena S.L. and Kibby vol 2. For the reasons outlined below I am very tempted towards Mycena olida.
The caps averaged 9mm were ivory white with a yellowish tinge to the centre of the older specimens there was slight interveining between the gills of the older flatter specimens. Taste insignificant smell not really noticeable. They had 2 spored basidia, with pleurocystidia in amongst the basidia of a similar shape to the cheliocystidia which fitted the cylindrical, subclavate or fusiform cheilocystidia of Mycena Olida as compared to the slightly similar looking Mycena hiemalis, which apparently has fusiform to utriform cheilos. Spores were well within the range for both M. olida and M. hiemalis. Examining the stipe I eventually managed to find caulocystidia and these fitted with the description and images of those in Mycena S.L. Clamps were absent or at least I couldn't find any, which is right for the versions with 2 spored basidia.
This is a completely new to me species and I am well outside of my comfort zone with this one, I am hopeful that in amongst the packing and sorting that Yvonne will have had a chance to look at the ones that she took and that they travelled better than, from his comments, those that Tony M. took, if so hopefully she will be able to give me some pointers as to where I went wrong. Over to you Yvonne.

Yvonne comments so far.

Sorry but I didn’t have time to really examine the specimens thoroughly, just a brief look under the microscope but I thought I could see some utriform cheilocystidia. I didn’t take it any further, didn’t even get the Mycena book out ! I must admit they didn’t look like Mycena in their growth habit and like Tony I did wonder about Delicatula but I didn’t even look up the microscopy on those, I think they have cystidia but not utriform - again I’ve never seen them grow like this.

A further comment from Yvonne

I managed to have another look at the last of my specimens this morning. I completely agree that the growth habit is more Delicatula, but the gills were deep and without any bifurcation and with only feint cross veining. The cystidia were utriform and according to FN Delicatula has cylindrical cheilos, if any at all, as it more commonly has none.
Been a very busy few days so probably haven't been able to give it the brain power that it warrants but have decided that as the last remnants of collapsing fruit body has now been given that last final flight from the bedroom window it is time to finally put to it to bed as a "remains a mystery".



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The comment above about developing thoughts on an id also apply to Harvestmen
as you can see by the discussion below.

Harvestmen Sp

Phalangium opilio

Tony L commented that it might be

Mitopus morio

Anne then sent her pictures to Vanna

who commented

Your harvestmen are either Phalangium opilio or Mitopus morio females. These two are tricky to separate. The crucial feature
isn't visible in your photos - a pair of small tubercles above the chelicerae would make them
P. opilio. The shape of the ocularium
is also useful but again not quite clear enough. I find these two really frustrating at times! On balance (gut feeling)
I'd go with
P. opilio but then I've only seen one M. morio female and that was last week at Marsham Heath.

A further comment from Vanna

The first one clearly shows the pair of tubercles above the chelicerae that make it Phalangium opilio (female).
Second one this area this isn't visible in either photo but the leg femora all look angular in cross section and
have several rows of acute black tipped tubercles which makes it P. opilio female as well.


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Magenta Rustgill (Gymnopilis dilepis)

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Spiked Shield Bug (Picromerus bidens)

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The hairs on the cap were not that obvious in the field but they show up well in the images above.

Hairs were also present on the stipe.

Growing on Pony Dung

Downy Conecap (Conocybe pubescens)

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Cavalier Sp (Melanoleuca Sp) on wood chip.

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Orange Mosscap (Rickenella fibula) with Moss Juicy Lucy - Neat Feather-moss (Pseudoscleropodium purum)

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