ID Help Please

[Lancashire Lad]

All these found yesterday: -

No.1
Growing in leaf litter below Beech.
Cap size about 40mm, stipe height similar.


No.2
Large Russula. Growing in grassy soil bank, under deciduous trees.
Cap sizes about 120-150mm across, stipe heights about 80-100mm
Possibly Charcoal Burner - Russula cyanoxantha ?


No.3
Medium sized Russula. Growing in open field, grassy soil bank.
Cap size about 50mm, stipe height about same.
Not sure if it can be pinned down from photos, as there seem to be several of these red Russulas it might be.


No.4
Small Hygrocybe. Growing in very poor shallow depth stony soil on grassy/scrubby ex-industrial ground.
Cap size about 12mm, stipe height about 20mm.
Thought possibly Hygrocybe miniata, but the caps aren't very scurfy.


No.5
Small Hygrocybe. Growing in very poor shallow depth stony soil on grassy/scrubby ex-industrial ground.
Cap size about 15mm, stipe height about 20mm.
Thought possibly Hygrocybe persistens, but not sure if the gills are sufficiently crowded.


No.6
Slime-mould.
Haven't previously found one this colour.
Possibly Tubifera ferruginosa ?


Any pointers towards ID's much appreciated.
Regards,
Mike,

[mollisia]

Hello,

Originally Posted by Lancashire Lad

No.1
Growing in leaf litter below Beech.
Cap size about 40mm, stipe height similar.

looks like an Inocybe to me. No idea which one though ....

No.2
Large Russula. Growing in grassy soil bank, under deciduous trees.
Cap sizes about 120-150mm across, stipe heights about 80-100mm
Possibly Charcoal Burner - Russula cyanoxantha ?

The left one may be, but cyanoxantha can seldom be determined by pictures. If you find it, try to the squeezing test of the gills. If you rub them with yxour thumb, they should become smooth and greasy and don't break. In all the neighbouring species the gills would break or at least don't become greasy (grisea, ionochlora, columbicolor etc.)

The right one seems too dark in my eyes for cyanoxantha. If you have this one still, could you please dry it and send it to me (freight charge will be given back)? Or if you have someone who will examine it microscopically - even better. Judging from the colour it is a species which has the microscopical characters of Russula parazurea, but is never pruinose on the cap and has such dull olivaceous-brownish colours. If the micros in your shown fruitbodies are indeed like R. parazurea, then you have a still undescribed species from the Griseinae which will be published next year by the german russula specialist Werner Jurkeit.

No.3
Medium sized Russula. Growing in open field, grassy soil bank.
Cap size about 50mm, stipe height about same.
Not sure if it can be pinned down from photos, as there seem to be several of these red Russulas it might be.

No idea. No emetica due to not white gills.
It will never get a name if we don't even know whether it is mild or acrid and if we don't have a sporeprint colour.

No.4
Small Hygrocybe. Growing in very poor shallow depth stony soil on grassy/scrubby ex-industrial ground.
Cap size about 12mm, stipe height about 20mm.
Thought possibly Hygrocybe miniata, but the caps aren't very scurfy.

Scurfy enough for the miniata group and the orange colours could also suite H. miniata. Much better it would suite for Hygrocybe calciphila, which has a smoother cap and more ornage colours then miniata. But then the soil must be calcarous. May be it is, due to the fact that it was industrial area before and may be there is a lot of bricks, house walls etc. in the ground. The occurence of H. persistens (below) also indicates calcareous soil, as this is one of the very few Hygrocybes which prefer calcareous soil.

No.5
Small Hygrocybe. Growing in very poor shallow depth stony soil on grassy/scrubby ex-industrial ground.
Cap size about 15mm, stipe height about 20mm.
Thought possibly Hygrocybe persistens, but not sure if the gills are sufficiently crowded.

Yes, H. persistens group (could also be konradii/subglobispora, but those are usually stouter)

No.6
Slime-mould.
Haven't previously found one this colour.
Possibly Tubifera ferruginosa ?

Don't think so, because those plasmodia occure in group and Tubifera usually only makes one or two "fruitbodies" and not several groups.

best regards,
Andreas

[Lancashire Lad]

Thanks again Andreas for your detailed reply.

No.1 - Yes I think I will have to log it as Inocybe sp.

No.2 - I will remember the "gill squeeze test" in future. The right hand photograph shows the same two fruitbodies as the first photo. The colouration was identical on the two. The apparent very dark cap is due to a change in the lighting, and my poor photography. Unfortunately I did not retain the specimens.

No.3 - Oh well it will just have to be "Russula sp." then.

Nos.4 & 5 - Yes the ground was previously covered by industrial slag-heaps of limestone etc. Now largely removed, but much of the flattened calcarious material remains, having effectively re-naturalised along with airborne debris and plant materials into a very thin layer of poor soil over the years.

No.6 - Another for the "unidentified" folder

Regards,
Mike.

[mollisia]

Hi,

o.k., so no chance for our new Russula species

But nevertheless, it's a pity you didn't bring the cyanoxantha with you. The gills on the darker foto look as if they were breakable and they don't seem to be white either. So probably a Griseinae. But without material it's just guessing ....

best regards,
Andreas