Help with genus appreciated

[watsthat]

Its been very quiet around here due to very dry conditions but this one showed up on Saturday.



The cap is about 75 to 80mm dia and height about 150. Here`s a shot of the gills, would you say they were; free, sinuate or emarginate.



The last shot shows spore deposits on a cap which was overlapped by another. I have had a good thumb through my books and can only speculate on Hebeloma, Pholiota or maybe Inocybe. I don`t think the gills have gone dark enough for Cortinarius. The substrate was locally chipped wood under hawthorn.



Thanks in anticipation

Pete

[Andy Overall]

Originally Posted by watsthat

Its been very quiet around here due to very dry conditions but this one showed up on Saturday.



The cap is about 75 to 80mm dia and height about 150. Here`s a shot of the gills, would you say they were; free, sinuate or emarginate.



The last shot shows spore deposits on a cap which was overlapped by another. I have had a good thumb through my books and can only speculate on Hebeloma, Pholiota or maybe Inocybe. I don`t think the gills have gone dark enough for Cortinarius. The substrate was locally chipped wood under hawthorn.



Thanks in anticipation

Pete

Looks like Pluteus petasatus. The cap is very pale, gills pink and free, spore print pink-brown.

Andy

[SheffieldLass]

And I've been finding them on wood chip sporadically over the last month, and I'm not that far from you. We've had the rain though, quite regularly and in decent amounts for a few weeks, but apparently just west of here the Farndale area is still very dry. You and they must have have been bypassed by our rain.

Melanie

[mollisia]

Hello,

I think this is Volvariella gloiocephala.
Was searching the volva in ypur pictures, but think that it must have been stuck in the wood-chips. Fortunately the foto of the one cap shows a volva remnant on the cap.

best regards,
Andreas

[flaxton]

Originally Posted by mollisia

Hello,

I think this is Volvariella gloiocephala.
Was searching the volva in ypur pictures, but think that it must have been stuck in the wood-chips. Fortunately the foto of the one cap shows a volva remnant on the cap.

best regards,
Andreas

That was going to be my suggestion but I then chickened out when andy posted

Mal

[Andy Overall]

Originally Posted by mollisia

Hello,

I think this is Volvariella gloiocephala.
Was searching the volva in ypur pictures, but think that it must have been stuck in the wood-chips. Fortunately the foto of the one cap shows a volva remnant on the cap.

best regards,
Andreas

That was my first thought but could see no volva. I totally missed that peice left on the single cap. I concur.

Andy

[watsthat]

Thanks all, yes the rain has missed Market Weighton (until last night).

I am familiar with Volvariella gloiocephala because its very common around here but I`ve always seen it in open fields with a chalky substrate. The spore colour bothers me though, (for Pluteus and Volvariella). I`ll have a look at V. gloiocephala spores when its out.

Pete

[Andy Overall]

Originally Posted by flaxton

That was going to be my suggestion but I then chickened out when andy posted

Mal

Sorry about that Mal. Threw you off course.

Andy

[flaxton]

Originally Posted by Andy Overall

Sorry about that Mal. Threw you off course.

Andy

Don't apologise Andy. Having got one or two wrong I was just a bit slower to jump in with the next id.

Mal