Fungi for Identification please.

[ron1863]

This was growing under Oak, Lactarius??


In sheep grazed grass on high moorland - thousands of them.


Under conifers


Growing in a thin layer of moss on sandstone.

[thebeard]

i think the 3rd one is Brown Roll-rim, Paxillus involutus, and the Lactarius is, Lactarius quietus, oak milkcap i think

[SheffieldLass]

#2 looks like a Hygrocybe, but the murky yellow on the cap makes me hesitate about which one it might be. Were the caps and/or stem viscid? Did you try the kissing test? Were there any other colours on them, like green? Some H psittacina go that murky colour, particularly when sun bleached or rain bleached when they lose the green/blue, and some don't really seem to have any green, but usually you'll find some, particularly the young ones with the distinguishing green/blue hue.

#4 looks like Omphalina, or if there is lichen mixed in with the moss then Lichenomphalia. It looks rather like Lichenomphalia umbellifera ....

Melanie

[ron1863]

Hi Melanie - what is the kissing test??

The caps and stem were viscid and no real discolouration on any caps I saw, and there were thousands but I did notice a lot of paler yellow ones with flattish caps, which I assumed were old specimens.

Ron

[SheffieldLass]

Originally Posted by ron1863

Hi Melanie - what is the kissing test??

The caps and stem were viscid and no real discolouration on any caps I saw, and there were thousands but I did notice a lot of paler yellow ones with flattish caps, which I assumed were old specimens.

Ron

The kissing test is putting your lips to them ... if they are viscid they will stick ... so it is the easiest way to tell as if they dry out a bit it is not easy just by looking, whereas your lips give a pretty reliable test ....

Well, if both the stem and cap were viscid that narrows it down ... they don't look like H glutinipes, or H insipida, or H vitellina, and as the gills are not decurrent that rules out H laeta var flava, so I think either H chlorophana or very yellow H psittacina. The gill shape and stem profile fit both. If that murky colour is just a trick of the light and they were really generally quite a clear yellow fading to whitish yellow then I would think probably H chlorophana ...... However I found last year in the North Pennines a whole lot of H psittacina with no green, just yellow, murky yellow and fading to whitish ... the micro details all pointed to H psittacina though, and the murky yellow seems to be fairly characteristic of them. On that photo my gut instinct is still for H psittacina .... did you take any more photos of them?

Others may come to a different conclusion though

Melanie

[NickCantle]

So if I find any Hygrocybe with lippy on, it's you Melanie?

[ron1863]

This is the only other shot Melanie:

[Lancashire Lad]

For the last one, I'd throw my novice hat at Omphalina ericetorum.

Regards,
Mike.

[ron1863]

Cheers Mike, it certainly is very similar to the one in Jordan's book.

[SheffieldLass]

Originally Posted by NickCantle

So if I find any Hygrocybe with lippy on, it's you Melanie?

No, not me .... you've probably worn lippy more often than I have .