ID help very much appreciated

[watsthat]

Any help or opinions very much appreciated:

This one has been bugging me for a couple of weeks, I keep coming back to Melanoleuca polioleuca but that gill attachment is throwing me. The fungi were at the side of a long abandoned railway, under hawthorn, elder, ash and sycamore.



This one was out today. It was smallish, found on a grassy farm track. Am I anywhere close with Lepista or Entoloma?



And finally a seasonal one; found in my kitchen on a substrate of pumpkin, brown sugar, nutmeg and cinnamon. I think its a Asco



Thanks in advance

Pete

[Ken Burgess]

Originally Posted by watsthat

I keep coming back to Melanoleuca polioleuca but that gill attachment is throwing me.

I see what you mean about the gill attachment. I'd be thinking Lyophyllum but again those gills raise a doubt in my mind.

Originally Posted by watsthat

This one was out today. It was smallish, found on a grassy farm track. Am I anywhere close with Lepista or Entoloma?

Try Calocybe carnea for that one. I think the spore print would have been white rather than pink.

[Chris Yeates]

hi

when you say you "think it's an Asco" do you just mean a micro-fungus?

in fact it is an asco but not in the way you might think; obviously it's a mould, and probably a species of Penicillium or Aspergillus . . . these are genera of "hyphomycetes" - imperfect (asexual) stages of ascomycetes (though often the perfect, sexual 'asco' stage is as yet unknown or may even be completely bypassed by the fungus)

cheers

Chris

[watsthat]

Originally Posted by Chris Yeates

hi

when you say you "think it's an Asco" do you just mean a micro-fungus?

in fact it is an asco but not in the way you might think; obviously it's a mould, and probably a species of Penicillium or Aspergillus . . . these are genera of "hyphomycetes" - imperfect (asexual) stages of ascomycetes (though often the perfect, sexual 'asco' stage is as yet unknown or may even be completely bypassed by the fungus)

cheers

Chris

Thanks Chris, I had a feeling you would chip in with some priceless info. You are an absolute font of information in this field and I hope you don`t think that I have wasted your time. The fact is; although I have an ingrained desire for facts on all things natural and can soak up information like blotting paper, I am still very much coming to grips with Basidiomycota never mind moulds, ascos`, hyphomycetes. But if you don`t start you`ll never get there!

Thanks for taking the trouble

Pete

[watsthat]

Originally Posted by Ken Burgess

I see what you mean about the gill attachment. I'd be thinking Lyophyllum but again those gills raise a doubt in my mind.



Try Calocybe carnea for that one. I think the spore print would have been white rather than pink.

Food for thought there Ken.

Thanks

Pete