Unknown finds

[flaxton]

Can anyone tell me the difference between Hygrocybe coccinea and H splendissima and which might this be



Is this an Arrhenia



And finally this sticky capped specimen



Thanks
Mal

[Chris Yeates]

hi Mal

Melanie's the one for Hygrocybe really; I think a fundamental factor with separating splendidissima is that its cap is dry as opposed to "moist, sticky or slimy" - it also smells of honey (particularly as it dries, I think - though I stand to be corrected)

second one looks very like Arrhenia acerosa - was it on a woody substrate?

last one looks like a Hebeloma - that's as far as I would want to take it on this evidence

cheers

Chris

[Ken Burgess]

Originally Posted by flaxton

Can anyone tell me the difference between Hygrocybe coccinea and H splendissima and which might this be

Hi Mal

A few thoughts to add to Chris's comments.

On the few occasions I have found Hygrocybe splendidissima it has stood out as noticeably different from H. coccinea, perhaps because it has had more of a conical cap, but also because the red colour has been more intense. The smell of 'honey' took a while to appear after finding the specimens but was eventually noticeable. But I think you can get a strong clue from the gill attachment, which in H. coccinea is normally more broadly adnate. In H. splendidissima the gills of an upturned specimen appear to arch down toward the top of the stem because they are more narrowly attached.

Your specimens seem to have quite broadly adnate gills and a lubricous cap and the overall jizz suggests H. coccinea to me.

Your Hebeloma doesn't seem to have the remains of a partial veil, so that narrows it down... but not much.

Ken

[cybershot]

Welcome aboard Ken

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by cybershot

Welcome aboard Ken

yes indeed - are you the Ken Burgess I remember from forays in the Meanwood Valley many years ago?

where have you been all this time?

LOL

Chris

[NickCantle]

Welcome to WAB Ken

[Davy Crockett]

what about this for an unknown findHistory of Telecommunication
After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, Italian scientists found traces of copper wire
dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion, that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago.

Not to be outdone by the Italians, in the weeks that followed, a Chinese archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet, and shortly after, a story in the China Daily read:
'Chinese archaeologists, finding traces of 200 year old copper wire, have concluded
their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a
hundred years earlier than the Italians.'

One week later, the Punjab Times, a local newspaper in India , reported the following:
After digging as deep as 30 feet in his pasture near Amritsar , in the Indian state of Punjab ,
Dugdeep Singh, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing.
Dugdeep has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, India had already gone wireless.

[Ken Burgess]

Originally Posted by Chris Yeates

yes indeed - are you the Ken Burgess I remember from forays in the Meanwood Valley many years ago?

I think that Ken Burgess had a full head of hair and bones that didn't ache after a day's foraying... so it must have been a different one.

Thanks for the welcomes.

Ken

[FungiJohn]

Originally Posted by Chris Yeates

yes indeed - are you the Ken Burgess I remember from forays in the Meanwood Valley many years ago?

where have you been all this time?

LOL

Chris

It is quite a common species here up north. We even found it on our Clumber WAB foray ... it was all over the park

John

[Ken Burgess]

Originally Posted by FungiJohn

It is quite a common species here up north. We even found it on our Clumber WAB foray ... it was all over the park

John

I'd like to think it's one that will be increasingly common at Clumber.

PS Sorry Mal. Your thread seems to have been hijacked in a number of ways, including telecommunications.