Strobilurus

flaxton · #1 (**permalink**) 24-03-2010, 11:15 PM

I collected a few spruce and pine cones on one of my forays last year and they have just been sat in the top of a large plant pot housing an acer. Then today I spotted a small fruitbody growing

At first I thought it might be Mycena strobilicola (well I would wouldn't I

) but a look under the scope at the numerous cheilo and pleurocystidia quickly put me right.

Some of the cystidia with looking almost like a Pluteus with encrusted ends.

Strobilurus esculentus.

Mal
Ps a couple of the photos on the A-Z are on pine cones so are not this species.

SheffieldLass · #2 (**permalink**) 24-03-2010, 11:41 PM

It must be that time of year again, famine time .... Strobilurus are great under the microscope, especially S esculentus..

Apart from substrate, macroscopically is it possible to tell the three Strobilurus apart, or indeed Baeospora myosura from Strobilurus? I always end up checking them microscopically.

Melanie

flaxton · #3 (**permalink**) 24-03-2010, 11:52 PM

If you are not going to let me use substrate

then use the time of year as a guide and then under the scope

Mal

SheffieldLass · #4 (**permalink**) 25-03-2010, 12:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by flaxton

If you are not going to let me use substrate

then use the time of year as a guide and then under the scope

Mal

I've just checked my records, and I've found S esculentus in Dec, Jan and March, S tenacellus in Feb, July, Oct, and Baeospora myosura in Jan ... I've yet to find S stephanocystis.

Melanie