Tiny yellow 'cotton buds' on Beech leaves

[solus]

Please don't ban me from going out just 'cos I always seem to find manky specimens, take bad photographs and can never identify much for myself!

I came across these on Sunday in a Cotswold Beechwood, lurking on a little clump of old, damp Beech leaves and I haven't the faintest idea what they are although I have looked diligently through my entire collection of fungi books (both of them!)





Next up, under mostly Beech but there was some Oak in the vicinity, a Cortinarius (I think!) I know I'm not likely to get much further than "sp." but I wondered if it was distinctive - the cap was sort of shaggy/scaly and yellow-buff in colour. It was growing out of the ground through the leaf litter. I didn't cut it or collect it.





Sorry about the quality of the picture - it was dark in the woods and I only had the compact camera which flares out detail with flash and is blurry without it.

Finally, one I thought was going to be easy - a red-pored Bolete, just outside the fence from the wooded area in open grassland but under the overhang of a Beech tree. The cap was pale dirty-beigey-greyish and the whole lot turned dark blue instantly - before I had even finished cutting it in fact. I thought perhaps B. luridus because the cap seemed too pale for luridiformis and it was under beech rather than Oak and the last (OK, it was the first too!) luridiformis I found only changed colour slowly, but then I wasn't sure if the pores would be so red? Is it B. luridus or summat else? The stipe was so eaten I couldn't decide if it had been netted or spotted or what.





Any and all help much appreciated. Oh, and I found several things at Stowe Landscape Gardens yesterday which I will undobtedly need help and/or confirmation for once I can get the photos on to the computer via Himself's PC and a memory stick as my built-in card reader seems to have died.

[Chris Yeates]

hi

your images are much better than many posted on here - so don't worry on that account

the top one looks very interesting (I bet you didn't collect it did you? ): it looks as though it would be more at home in the tropics - it also looks like the sort of fungus that needs detailed study . . . .

middle one - I would be thinking more Inocybe than Cortinarius

bottom one is Boletus luridus - look at that characteristic darker network on the stem (still very much in evidence, despite munching)

cheers

Chris

[stickman]

Hi.

The second one reminds me a bit of Lacrymaria lacrymabunda.

Not a clue for the first....

Nick.

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by stickman

Hi.

The second one reminds me a bit of Lacrymaria lacrymabunda.


Nick.

of course it is! - well done . . . .

Chris

[solus]

Originally Posted by Chris Yeates

hi

the top one looks very interesting (I bet you didn't collect it did you? ): it looks as though it would be more at home in the tropics - it also looks like the sort of fungus that needs detailed study . . . .

Of course I didn't collect it -anyway I doubt a bunch of wet Beech leaves would have survived the rest of the walk in my pocket let alone the question of whether Himself would have allowed me to put them in his nice shiny company car! And before you ask - I have no chance of ever finding them again - I only saw them as it was because I went off the path to look at a Mycena on a very dead stump. I picked up the clump of leaves and put them on the stump to try to photograph the 'cotton buds'.

Thanks for the other IDs - I never thought of a young Lacrymaria: I saw that veil and my mind got stuck on Cortinarius.

Re the Boletus: I didn't realise that features like stem netting would still be visible after the whole surface had been eaten away. So much to learn....

I now have most of my pictures from yesterday on the computer but am missing 16 (not fungi but general scenery pics) which my naughty computer managed to destroy/lose/wipe out before it decided to tell me the card reader wasn't working. Bah!!