hygrophoropsis aurantiaca ???

[kiltoncomp]

found these growing under pines in a large semi circle, i thought at first they were either clitocybe or a lepista , but the colour of the gills seemed wrong ?
the colour was perhaps a touch more orangey than the photos show.


the best match i could find was hygrophoropsis aurantiaca ,but not to sure

Brian

[NickCantle]

Lepista flaccida?

[walk lightly]

The gills look quite dried out and this can turn the gills quite browny instead of white.

Doesn't hygrophoropsis aurantiaca supposedly glowing the dark at little?

[NickCantle]

I've never heard that it does, but you may well be correct. The only 'glow in the dark' fungi that I'm aware of are the mycelium of Armillaria and Omphalotus illudens, though I've never seen either.

[walk lightly]

It has being a number of years since I saw any false chanterelles, they were growing a dark dip in hampstead heath woods, they didn't glow in dark but they were bright in way that some flowers stand out. Kind of dayglo/UV as if there was a frequency of light that you couldn't quite see. Quite wierd. Foxfire from honey fungi laces looks just plain creepy.

[kiltoncomp]

Originally Posted by NickCantle

Lepista flaccida?

that was my first choice, but both jordans and phillips say the gills are creamy white or whitish yellow while these are definitely on the orangey brown side ,the habitat was right for l.flaccida - pine needle litter , its just the colour seems wrong.

[kiltoncomp]

Originally Posted by walk lightly

The gills look quite dried out and this can turn the gills quite browny instead of white.

Doesn't hygrophoropsis aurantiaca supposedly glowing the dark at little?

the whole cap was pretty moist,(when i tried to get a spore print from the sample all i got was a wet patch on the paper) i do'nt know if the caps had dried out before ,but we have had quite a bit of rain when these would have been developing,so not sure if they have ever been in a dry condition to cause the browning of the gills , and the pine needles they were in are still moist, the actual colour was more orange than the photos depict,