Root Rot confirmation and ID small Brown ones

jonbem · #1 (**permalink**) 13-10-2009, 06:00 PM

Hi all
I think the first is Root Rot Heterobasidion annosum from a burried stump in a pine plantation

but then can anyone ID these small brown ones found about 20 yards away? Quite a good mushroomy smell, but toughish stem. It dried out quite quickly at room temperature

Thanks
Jon

Chris Yeates · #2 (**permalink**) 13-10-2009, 07:41 PM

the brown ones look rather like those rather characterless brownish / greyish small Clitocybe species which turn up in conifer woods late in the season

I have to confess I can't get very excited about them

cheers

Chris

mushruman · #3 (**permalink**) 13-10-2009, 08:52 PM

Hi. I think I have seen a few of those about recently also. Could they beClitocybe metachroa?

ManwithNoname · #4 (**permalink**) 14-10-2009, 05:57 PM

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Originally Posted by mushruman

Hi. I think I have seen a few of those about recently also. Could they beClitocybe metachroa?

Yes they could well be Clitocybe metachroa, but there are also other possibilities and there isn't enough information in the photo to give a definitive answer. Characters like smell and colour of the gills can be important in separating some of these species.

The bracket is Heterobasidion annosum.

I presume the yellow-gilled one was Tricholomopsis rutilans judging by the trace of purple towards the edge of the upturned cap?