Blue Mycena from Clumber Park

[FungiJohn]

Hello all

Looking through several hundred past 'reject' images I noticed this blue Mycena species from January 2008. Just one out of the three fruitbodies showing the blue cap ... very odd! It doesn't look at all like the blue mycena ... that I can't remember the name of



How I didn't notice this at the time is .... well, I can't really explain

John

edit : Mycena rorida! is what I was thinking of

[Chris Yeates]

hi John

definitely not rorida - Mycena amicta is a possibility, I think (gulp - wait 'til Andreas puts me right)

cheers

Chris

[AlanS]

Looks fine for M. amicta to me. Conspicuously pruinose stem of course.

Very blue variants used to be called M. iris, but they grade into typical amicta.

Alan

[flaxton]

The only other Mycena with any blue is M cyanorrhiza and that only has blue at the base of the stipe. A couple of others M cyanescens and M cyanipes have been discounted by Maas Geesteranus so you are left with, as already suggested, M amicta.

Mal

[FungiJohn]

Originally Posted by Chris Yeates

hi John
definitely not rorida - Mycena amicta is a possibility, I think (gulp - wait 'til Andreas puts me right)
cheers
Chris

Originally Posted by AlanS

Looks fine for M. amicta to me. Conspicuously pruinose stem of course.
Very blue variants used to be called M. iris, but they grade into typical amicta.
Alan

Originally Posted by flaxton

The only other Mycena with any blue is M cyanorrhiza and that only has blue at the base of the stipe. A couple of others M cyanescens and M cyanipes have been discounted by Maas Geesteranus so you are left with, as already suggested, M amicta.
Mal

Thanks chaps. That looks good to me too!

John