Four fungi for ID

[ron1863]

1. Growing solitary under bracken among leaf litter in broadleaf woodland.


2. I'm thinking Polyporus tuberaster or possibly Polyporus squamosis.


3. Covering a fallen unidentified tree trunk


4. Growing on a stumped and it has me stumped.

[Chris Yeates]

hi Ron

1 Clitocybe species
3 looks interesting but I suspect would need microscopy
4 Daedalea quercina

cheers

Chris

[fairplay]

Hello Ron,

Just back from a foray at Knetishall Heath, W.Suffolk where only 3 macro species were found !!
Anyway let's have a bash at yours.

No1. Ampulloclitocybe (Clitocybe) clavipes - Club Foot.
Chris, do you know why 'Ampullo' has been stuck on the front ?
No2. Polyporus tuberaster.
No3. There are a lot of resupinate white crusts like this - as Chris say's, microscopy needed I'm afraid.
No4. Agree with Chris (the 'maze' pattern is not always obvious)

Neil.

[ron1863]

Thanks Chris and Neil, much appreciated.

[SheffieldLass]

Originally Posted by fairplay

Just back from a foray at Knetishall Heath, W.Suffolk where only 3 macro species were found !!

Neil.

I did a bit better, found 8 macro species today, but that was probably the lowest count of the year so far. Though one field had a lot of Hygrocybe virginea coming through, but not a squeek of them on the adjacent fields where they are normally plentiful at this time of year. So much for the rain. Yesterday it was so windy it had dried the second it landed, though most was horizontal and didn't even land . And a brief shower today. It is still very dry under foot. Ron seems to be in the right place though.

Melanie

[ron1863]

Those four was just a small selection of fungi found when I was in Edinburgh and went for a walk in a small wood for an hour.

[SheffieldLass]

Originally Posted by SheffieldLass

Though one field had a lot of Hygrocybe virginea coming through, but not a squeek of them on the adjacent fields where they are normally plentiful at this time of year.

Melanie

(Oops, hijacking Ron's thread. BTW those very large clumps of Ramaria that you found were very impressive.)

Doh .... I looked at those H virginea last night ... they were H russocoriacea . (First time I've recorded them on that site .) They did smell very nice when I picked them too, though I didn't really properly 'smell' them for id purposes, just got a whiff as I put them in their tub. But then some H virginea smell nice when they have the pink infection on them. And I thought the slightly browny appearance was because it was so dry. But these had for H virginea unusually 'button mushroom' shaped caps, which I thought was also due to weather conditions. But something must have niggled, to make me look at them a bit more carefully, indeed to pick a couple to take to check.

But it could explain why they were only on that field, that they are only on that field . That particular field goes quite white at times with H virginea, which is my excuse for making the wrong assumption ... or, come to think of it, were they all H virginea ?

Melanie