Help with fungi id please

[BROCSMAN]

I think Hygrocybe russocoriacea is a good match, although the gills still look wrong for a Hygrocybe the rest of it looks ok. The gills were decurrent, but not strongly. Maybe you are right after all KT!

Spore print very white, by the way.

Sorry the original photo isn't better. I'm trying to take better shots.

Thanks for all the input.

[flaxton]

I often cannot pick up on the supposed smell of a lot of fungi but whenever I have found russocoriacea the aroma has been so strong. I don't think you would pass the comment "it didn't seem to be particularly strong", but I could be wrong.

Mal

[BROCSMAN]

Well I have a relatively poor sense of smell, but not that poor, so maybe it's back to the drawing board!

Thanks again.

[kiltoncomp]

Originally Posted by BROCSMAN

Well I have a relatively poor sense of smell, but not that poor, so maybe it's back to the drawing board!

Thanks again.

i normally have a good sense of smell (much to the amusement of certain family members) and even fungi that have a supposedly strong particular smell often just have the everyday mushroom/woody smell to me,

i think you need a Jilly Goulden nose to detect some aromas

Brian.

[KeenTeen17]

yeah my book said the gills of said hygrocybe are decurrent

[NickCantle]

I'm with Hygrophorus on this one. Species though, I have no clue.

[BROCSMAN]

Yes, I've gone back to do a bit more research on Hygrophorus, and found this, one of Yves Deneyer's photos, which looks spot on. I think it's either H. arbustivus or something very similar. I didn't see any beech in the copse, just oak and birch so no smoking gun.

[flaxton]

Hygrophorus certainly looks more likely but arbustivus is in the Red Data list so id from a photo would not be enough

Mal

[BROCSMAN]

That would be a first for me. Should I try to get an authoritative id and if so what would be needed?

[flaxton]

Normally I would say just send some dried specimen to Kew enclosing a photo and detailed description of where and when it was found and the trees nearby. Unfortunately as someone mentioned in another thread Dr Peter Roberts, who is the person who would confirm this for you, is retiring at the end of December so whether he would have time before he leaves is another matter. It is still worth a try

Mal