Eyelash Close Up and A Fungi for ID Please.

[Lancashire Lad]

Originally Posted by CapAndBracket

I think the eyelash gets put down as Scutellinia scutellata by most people.... At the last count i heard there are 26 species of Scutellinia that look very similar....

I think I'll go along with that from now on.
It was bad enough when I found out there were two - but 26 !!

Thanks again everyone.

Edit - The concensus of opinion for the other one is Honey Fungus.
I know there are several types of that so I'll record this as Amillaria sp.

Regards
Mike.

[CapAndBracket]

Just to add i sure wouldn't want to dampen anyones enthusiasm
it's just that some of the ascomycetes can't even be got to genus
with a magnifying glass, but that's what makes this all so interesting,
if i know half my book in 10 years i will have done extremely well

Cheers J.P.

[fairplay]

According to 'Armillaria Root Rot' by Roland Fox, there happens to be 7 species of Armillaria in Britain - mellea, ostoyae, borealis, tabescens, cepistipes, lutea (formerly bulbosa or gallica), and the very rare ectypa, plus of course many other species worldwide.

I am not aware of what it says in the Basidiomycete Checklist.

Looking at Mike's photo's above, I don't believe it is possible to tell with 100% certainity if these are mellea or ostoyae.

Keen Teens photo seems to show the undescribed (to Science) extremely rare Armillaria horizontalis (It's a joke KT, just a joke)

Neil.

Edit : Tee he....This site has really come a croper in this thread, click on Root Rot and you get Fomes not Honey Fungus ! and Mr Roland Fox isn't really a Fox.