Clumber Park providing early fungi finds

[FungiJohn]

Hello all

A visit on Friday with Steve and Sunday with Les captured the following species:

1. The quite common Nectria episphaeria found on Hypoxylon fragiforme


2. Lachnellula type found on dead wood.


3. is also a Lachnellula but found on dead conifer / pine branches


4. A Mollisia species found on the above cones




5. Mycena species growing on conifer. The gill edges I thought were quite interesting.


6. A Myxo!


A sign of more to come hopefully

John and Les

[Leif]

John: I recommend you check the Nectria. Some found by Sue Rogerson and provisionally identified by Alan Lucas turned out to be another as yet undetermined species. I sent them to an American group who are doing further work on them to work out the species. Checking the spores from your samples is advised.

[mollisia]

Originally Posted by Leif

John: I recommend you check the Nectria. Some found by Sue Rogerson and provisionally identified by Alan Lucas turned out to be another as yet undetermined species. I sent them to an American group who are doing further work on them to work out the species. Checking the spores from your samples is advised.

Hello,

same is true with us here in Thueringen! We had that last year, with remarkable bigger spores then Nectria episphaeria should have. We sent it to Ami Rossman (same as you did, I suppose).

best regards,
Andreas

[mollisia]

Hello John and Les,

the two Lachenllula collections are worth microscoping. And you do a lot easier when you do that with still living material. You will have to check for some features which you are probably not used to look at in those ascomycetes: Croziers at the base of the asci, content of the spores (droplet, how many, how big, which pattern), reaction of the ascus pore on Lugols solution (better Barals solution, but NOT Melzers!). That might be new, but with those features and some additional it is usually no problem to determine those species. And there are some, which are quite rarely reported or even new to Britain. Who knows of Lachnellula gallica or Lachnellula robustus? Especially the first one is not too rare. Both have quite big subglobose to broadly ellipsoid spores. On Pinus and Abies is the best chance to find one of the "better" Lachnellulas

The Mycena is M. purpureofusca.

best regards,
Andreas

[CapAndBracket]

Molisia.sp found on scots pine branch (rotten).

Afraid my photo skills aren't as good as FJ's,

Trying to come up with a credible gess for the myxo's
Possibly Physarum flavicomum.

Cheers J.P.

[FungiJohn]

Originally Posted by Leif

John: I recommend you check the Nectria. Some found by Sue Rogerson and provisionally identified by Alan Lucas turned out to be another as yet undetermined species. I sent them to an American group who are doing further work on them to work out the species. Checking the spores from your samples is advised.

Hi Leif

Many thanks for this. Most interesting!
John

[FungiJohn]

Originally Posted by mollisia

Hello John and Les,

the two Lachenllula collections are worth microscoping. And you do a lot easier when you do that with still living material. You will have to check for some features which you are probably not used to look at in those ascomycetes: Croziers at the base of the asci, content of the spores (droplet, how many, how big, which pattern), reaction of the ascus pore on Lugols solution (better Barals solution, but NOT Melzers!). That might be new, but with those features and some additional it is usually no problem to determine those species. And there are some, which are quite rarely reported or even new to Britain. Who knows of Lachnellula gallica or Lachnellula robustus? Especially the first one is not too rare. Both have quite big subglobose to broadly ellipsoid spores. On Pinus and Abies is the best chance to find one of the "better" Lachnellulas

The Mycena is M. purpureofusca.

best regards,
Andreas

Hi Andreas

Many thanks for this. I'm sending these off to Kew as I don't have access to the reagents, and most of all the required skills to ID

Much appreciated as always

John & Les

[FungiJohn]

Originally Posted by CapAndBracket

Molisia.sp found on scots pine branch (rotten).

Afraid my photo skills aren't as good as FJ's,

Trying to come up with a credible gess for the myxo's
Possibly Physarum flavicomum.

Cheers J.P.

Thanks J.P

With all the new fungi I had completely forgot about the Myxo ... Shame on me

John

[FungiJohn]

I perhaps should have included the Alder Goblet - Ciboria amentacea, also found at Clumber Park in this thread





John

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by mollisia

Hello,

same is true with us here in Thueringen! We had that last year, with remarkable bigger spores then Nectria episphaeria should have. We sent it to Ami Rossman (same as you did, I suppose).

best regards,
Andreas

is that just on H. fragiforme or Hypoxylon in general?

I have never seen this, but shall keep an eye out - I have to admit that I don't check every collection of "episphaeria" on Diatrype, but would always check on Diatrypella (for N.magnusiana)

Chris