Entoloma - any brave souls?

[CapAndBracket]

Still looking , rain forecast next two days so just maybe

Cheers J.P.

[flaxton]

Originally Posted by SheffieldLass

Mine is actually a very basic mono, so it takes the only slot available, and the eyepiece is now stored away ...

Brunel microscopes would be able to tell you whether it is ok for a standard binocular microscope where it takes the place of one of the eyepieces (I think it probably is ok, but best to ask to be sure). But maybe you are wanting to be able to frequently switch between looking down the scope and looking on screen. I know some microscopes have an accessory that can be fitted called a teaching head which provides the third tube, so leaving your viewing eyepieces free to use at the same time.

And there I was thinking that others were also finding Entoloma. Just found a few rather robust ones, which I thought might be interesting, and they turned out to be the usual E conferendum ... they must grow much bigger and better in spring than in autumn and winter. But I've got another group of brown Entoloma, which I'm just about to check out, which look different again, so I'm hoping that they don't turn out to be E conferendum too.

Melanie

It comes with rings to make it fit most scopes. It fits fine on my Brunel scope and with a ring it fits a Seben disecting.

Mal

[Andy Overall]

Originally Posted by SheffieldLass

Mine is actually a very basic mono, so it takes the only slot available, and the eyepiece is now stored away ...

Brunel microscopes would be able to tell you whether it is ok for a standard binocular microscope where it takes the place of one of the eyepieces (I think it probably is ok, but best to ask to be sure). But maybe you are wanting to be able to frequently switch between looking down the scope and looking on screen. I know some microscopes have an accessory that can be fitted called a teaching head which provides the third tube, so leaving your viewing eyepieces free to use at the same time.

And there I was thinking that others were also finding Entoloma. Just found a few rather robust ones, which I thought might be interesting, and they turned out to be the usual E conferendum ... they must grow much bigger and better in spring than in autumn and winter. But I've got another group of brown Entoloma, which I'm just about to check out, which look different again, so I'm hoping that they don't turn out to be E conferendum too.

Melanie

Thanks for your quick response Melanie. Sorry it wasn't concerning Entoloma this thread is turning into a scope query isn't it?. I would like to have both computer & scope available when looking at stuff if possible with an emphasis on the larger screen. I'm sure I can sort something out. I'm thinking I might invest in a new scope and at the same time purchase the necessary camera etc. Do you or anybody else have any tips on half decent scopes? With regard to the Entoloma, have you given E. clypeatum a thought, it is fairly frequent during the spring but usually with Cratageus. I have seen it recently. If in open pasture/meadow then most likely not this species.

Andy

[Lancashire Lad]

Sorry to hijack this thread - but it's only for this one post
There was some mention on an earlier thread about starting a dedicated Microscope Equipment/Technique thread (with respect to use with fungi).

I'm quietly lurking in the background on this issue in order to soak up the relevant information. Any chance that you people who have the knowledge could start up such a thread so that I (and others) won't miss anything.

Regards
Mike.

[Alantb]

Ok I'll start one with my original question

Alan

[SheffieldLass]

Originally Posted by CapAndBracket

Hopefully this is going to turn into a colourful and interesting thread as the
summer progresses.

Cheers J.P.

If you like brown here are two more:

I think these are different species, though the habitat is similar ... in acidic moorland edge grassland .. and most of the microscopic characters were very similar. Only difference seemed to be the pileipellis .. the second had much broader hyphae. But again didn't manage to get to a species name for either that I was confident about, or indeed which group the second belonged to.

No cheilocystidia. Both 4 spored basidia. Both with fairly long gill trama hyphae to 300um+. Both with very occasional clamps. Smell mealy. Pigment appeared to be intracellular only in both. Pileipellis a cutis in both, but the first was up to 12um, the second 12-35um (well I couldn't see any difference between pipeipellis and subpellis in that one). Spore sizes very similar.

No. 1

Found April 20.
Spore size 9.0-10.7 (12.3) x (6.2) 6.6-7.9 (8.6)um

No. 2


Found May 10. End picture: pileipellis cutis
Spore size 9.4-10.6 (11.8) x 96.2) 6.5-7.6 (8.6)um.
It dried much lighter.

Any idea what the stars are?... Well it was outdoing E conferendum by having some (alien) stars and being interesting too.



I think the first might be the same species as the one that started the thread.

Melanie