New Years Day Fungal Hunt

[SheffieldLass]

Well done with all your hunting ... I'll get my list together in a bit, I'm still warming up my toes as the melting hoar frost in the long grass got through to my socks (must have been a bit warmer today than yesterday!) ... takes me ages to upload photos as I'm still on dial up ... but I've got quite a few, including quite a number I haven't put a name to yet ...

Melanie

[Chris Yeates]

hello all!

I'm glad we had this challenge as I might otherwise have stayed in on such a cold day!

just torn myself away from the microscope; as I said I was going to limit myself to within a 1 kilometre walking distance of home, and I did . . .

total is 55 species so far (with a reasonable amount of macrofungi - including 4 agarics); best of all was an excellent collection of stream foam chock full of aquatic fungi - a dozen species so far (I shall post something soon on the subject of aquatic fungi - an amazing area of study with fungi that can have spores that look like midges, camels, hummingbirds and shrimps - and no I haven't had anything alcoholic yet; it makes looking at dung fungi seem quite normal)

cheers

Chris

[Gerel]

Bit nippy out today, who's idea was this anyway?

Found a few species, although not anywhere near the fifty odd John and Chris got

Confident identifictions;

Birch Polyphore - Piptoporus betulinus
Yellow Brain - Tremella mesenterica
Hairy Stereum - Stereum hirsutum
Coral spot - Nectria cinnabarina

Hypoxylon multiforme
Dead Man's Fingers - Xylaria polymorphia

Trametes versicolor
Chicken of the Woods - Laetiporus sulphureus (past it's best)

Candlesnuff - Xylaria hypoxylon

Unsure of these;
Pleurotus ostreatus (there was a large group a week ago, this was all that was left today )

Small Scleroderma

Trametes sp.



Maze Gill ?

An immature Mycena probably,

Stereums



The unknowns are in the next post.

[Gerel]

No idea with these.
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I think that's about 25,

Happy New Year

Steve

[KeenTeen17]

1) same colours as kretschmaria deusta but I dont think thats it.
3) hymenochaete rubiginosa
5) kretschmaria deusta

[KeenTeen17]

Originally Posted by Gerel

Unsure of these;
Trametes sp.



Maze Gill ?

An immature Mycena probably,

Stereums



The unknowns are in the next post.

1) either trametes hirsuta or trametes versicolor
2) trametes gibbosa
3) not sure about the stereum crusts?

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by jennyb

It was too cold to stay out long but I had a quick search round my garden and then through the woods in the village. Very excited that I found my first Eyelash fungi today!

There are 2 photos of the next one. Again they were minute and with tiny stalks.





Jenny

hi Jenny

these look to be a Hymenoscyphus species (i.e. a 'discomycete'); it's impossible to take it much further than that without being able to examine it in much more detail

as regards the eyelash fungus, check out some of the posts re: Scutellinia species on WAB recently; unfortunately there are over 20 species in the UK, but the popular books tend to show only S. scutellata

but you're right - whatever the exact species, they are beautiful fungi

all the best for 2009

Chris

[SheffieldLass]

This is my list with some of the photos

1. Pin head mould – orange heads and black heads


2. Sycamore tar spot
3. Rose black spot
4. Something on rose hip


5. Phellinus sp, probably ferruginosus
6. Tricholoma sp under predominantly coniferous


7. Mycena inclinata on oak


8. Collybia (poss) on stick under oak



9. Bracket Stereum sp? On probable larch



10. Panellus mitis on larch
11. Encrusting fungus on probable larch


12. Trichaptum abietum on spruce



13. Something on probable spruce



14. Clavulina rugosa on grassy/mossy bank in wood
15. Coral spot Nectria cinnabarina
16. Xylaria hypoxylon
17. Hypholoma sp on/adjacent to spruce stump


More to follow
Melanie

[SheffieldLass]

18. Strobilurus sp on Scots Pine cone (need to check)



19. Furry (and frosty) dog dung .. and I have a photo of you are really interested, but not a sample ....
20. Galerina sp in grassland


21. Hygrocybe laeta in grassland


22. Hygrocybe pratensis in grassland




23. Stropharia semiglobata in grassland


24. Hygrocybe sp red (not yet checked microscoopically) in grassland



25. Tubaria sp, possibly dispersa as growing from hawthorn berry/seed



26. Collybia butyraceae under hawthorn
27. Hygrocybe sp possibly splendidissima …


28. Hygrocybe psittacina


29. Panaeolus sp


30. Lycoperdon sp


31. Birch polypore Piptoporus betulinus. It looks very festive ...


more to follow

Melanie

[SheffieldLass]

32. Exida sp on birch


33. Lepista nuda


34. Clavulinopsis sp


35. Cystoderma amianthinum


36. Entoloma sp probably conferendum



37. Clavulinopsis fusiformis (well past its former glory)


38. Encrusting fungi on spruce?


39. Trametes sp on oak branch


40. Trametes sp probably versicolor on deciduous


41. Rust on leek leaves
42. Ceratiomyxa fructiculosa (very abundant)


And of course the mould growing on the left over cooked beetroot in my fridge.

Melanie