From Today - Confirmations & ID Help Please

Lancashire Lad · #1 (**permalink**) 01-10-2009, 06:08 PM

All found today in a mixed deciduous woodland.

No.1 - Pretty sure these are False Deathcap - Amanita citrina

No.2 - Growing under oak leaf litter, on acorn cupules. (But kept falling off as soon as I tried to move them).
Fairly abundant, caps up to 1cm across but generally smaller.
First thoughts were that this might be in the area of Rutstroemia, but these have long stipes? (I collected some of these in case further info required).

No.3 - A Cortinarius ?
Caps up to about 50mm, stipe lengths similar.

No.4 - Not sure about this at all.
Growing in soil on a steep roadside banking.
Caps very viscid, gills spotting rust colour.
Caps about 60mm diameter. stipe length about 70mm

No.5 - Have been wrong in the past, but are these Blushers - Amanita rubescens?

No.6 - This smelled like Geraniums so I'm thinking it's Cortinarius flexipes.
Cap about 15mm across, stipe height about 45mm
Growing in same roadside banking as No.4

Any Confirmations or ID's will be much appreciated.

Regards,
Mike.

flaxton · #2 (**permalink**) 01-10-2009, 06:18 PM

Mike
Ciboria batschiana for no 2 is a possibility.

Mal

Lancashire Lad · #3 (**permalink**) 01-10-2009, 06:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by flaxton

Mike
Ciboria batschiana for no 2 is a possibility.

Mal

Cheers Mal, - Looks like you've got it there.

Chris Yeates · #4 (**permalink**) 01-10-2009, 07:14 PM

2 yes to Ciboria batschiana;

3 is a Cortinarius section Telamonia: does one take it that it didn't smell of Pelargonium? in which case C. hemitrichus is a likely candidate

4 looks very like Gymnopilus penetrans (or one of its close allies - the whole G. penetrans/sapinea et al. cluster is an area of taxonomic confusion)

6 flexipes looks a good shout

cheers

Chris

alge · #5 (**permalink**) 01-10-2009, 09:45 PM

There is probably good reason for two trusted wabbers not mentioning 1, so i probably shouldn't. The only macroscopic detail that i think is atypical in these are the top edges of the basal bulbs. Phillips describes " the large basal bulb encased in the remains of the volva which creates a trough around the stem." Extract from the 1994 edition.

Its one feature i find most consistent, so much so i cant remember ever finding one that doesn't show "the trough". Size and colour can vary slightly which threw me on one recently but i'd be inclined to confirm your pretty sure these are Amanita citrina.

alex

ron1863 · #6 (**permalink**) 01-10-2009, 10:02 PM

Mike, No. 6 looks like Frosty Webcap - Cortinarious hemitrichus. Here is Pauline's photo, very similar to yours.

Chris Yeates · #7 (**permalink**) 01-10-2009, 10:43 PM

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Originally Posted by ron1863

Mike, No. 6 looks like Frosty Webcap - Cortinarious hemitrichus. Here is Pauline's photo, very similar to yours.

agreed Ron - except that Mike mentioned the smell of "Geraniums" by which I assume he meant Pelargonium and hemitrichus doesn't have that smell . . .

Chris

Lancashire Lad · #8 (**permalink**) 02-10-2009, 12:13 AM

Thanks for the replies everyone.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chris Yeates

...3 is a Cortinarius section Telamonia: does one take it that it didn't smell of Pelargonium? in which case C. hemitrichus is a likely candidate...

No Chris, there was no unusual smell on these, just the usual "mushroomy" sort of smell.
Looking at Pauline's image, (plus books and online images) I think C.hemitrichus is the likely contender, although none of what I saw today had such a very pointed umbo. (Apart from the one that smelled of Pelargoniums that was found separately on the road banking.).

As no one has disagreed, I will assume that the False Deathcap & Blusher were correct.

Regards,
Mike.