wonderful fungi wander help!

[diggleken]

Hello all,
had a great wander yesterday, found lots of stuff, the fungi included these in the damp woodland, but would appreciate some help or confirmation please for these:
All in damp broadleaved woodland, rough unculivated soil with some leaf litter and rottting logs of oak, beech, birch and sycamore.
1/ this may be a slime mould, very tiny,sorry, very dark and flashed washed out, so indistinct, but the tubes can be seen. It was off white.

2/ on rotten log, trooping, all white - panellus/crepidotus?

3/ From Jordan, this looks like tubifera ferruginosa, it was sporulating with puffs of spores galore and appeared alive as any tiny movement made it quake or wriggle like a maggot - most strange. yellowish. Similar to 1 above?

4/ extremely tiny, heads appearing on log end - calocera cornea maybe?

5/ scutellinia spp - more orange than reddish, unlike previous ones seen - Mike asked a question last week about these with differing lengths of eyelash, poss S. umbrorum? but clearly it cant be conclusive froma pic, hey ho.

6/ getting easier now - xylaria longipes?

7/ surely bisporella citrina?

8/ lastly - is this coprinus hemerobius? or what?

Thanks a lot to all my readers!
Cheers
Ken

[Lancashire Lad]

Hi Ken,
For what it's worth: -

I think photo 3 might be Arcyria nutans. The fruitbodies look very like those that I found earlier this week.


I think photo 4 might be showing some very dry Calocera (Possibly C.cornea). Lots of similar in Sunnyhurst woods recently.

Regards,
Mike.

[Chris Yeates]

hi Ken

probably safe with Calocera sp., B. citrina and X. longipes

Coprinus (probably actually Parasola) needs microscopy

Scutellinia ditto, don't forget there are around 45 species in this genus - with over half of them reported from Britain! (I'm always happy to look at well collected & dried material of these)

Panellus and Crepidotus have no stem or a very rudimentary one so forget those two genera

that's about it

cheers

Chris

[diggleken]

thanks a lot Mike and Chris, thats really good - and I can do a bit more rooting about research for the others now!
Cheers
Ken

[mollisia]

Hello,

I don't agree to Bisporella citrina. That should grow on decorticated wood and is not so greenish-yellow and also substipitate and more crowded in growth. Yours is very probably Bisporella sulphurea, a fairly xerotolerant one which offen grows on twigs still attached to the tree/shrub.

best regards,
Andreas

[diggleken]

Originally Posted by mollisia

Hello,

I don't agree to Bisporella citrina. That should grow on decorticated wood and is not so greenish-yellow and also substipitate and more crowded in growth. Yours is very probably Bisporella sulphurea, a fairly xerotolerant one which offen grows on twigs still attached to the tree/shrub.

best regards,
Andreas

Great stuff, thanks Andreas - I agree, hadnt realised until you said - and pics in my books confirm - B citrina is on decorticated, but B sulphurea on barked wood.
Although the twig was fallen, it hadnt been there long enough to lose the bark. And also as you say, not very crowded.
A new word for me, xerotolerant! What is the meaning please anyone? Only in clear unpolluted air/environment? Or what!
Any way, a new spot for me Bisporella Sulphurea.
Cheers
Ken

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by diggleken

A new word for me, xerotolerant! What is the meaning please anyone? Only in clear unpolluted air/environment? Or what!

able to cope with dry environments, often by an ability to dry out and then revive when conditions improve (from the Greek - indeed 'Xerox' used the name to indicate a form of dry, rather than wet, printing)

Orbilia species often exhibit this, as does Mollisia ligni (see Pick up sticks and Andreas' comment a few posts further down)

cheers

Chris

(and thanks for the useful comment re Bisporella, Andreas - I shall bear this in mind in future)

[diggleken]

thanks a lot Chris for that info - that description applies to quite a lot of rotten wood fungi I guess - those as you say plus jelly spot, exidia, jews ear etc spring to mind too.
I have a fallen twig of witches butter that keeps being dry, then reappearing when wet!
Cheers
Ken