Hygrocybe and Mycena confirm/help

[alge]

I saw this troop as i drove home friday evening they were growing on a well kept thick lawn and were starkly yellow against the green of the grass so i had to pull up in a layby down the road and walk back up the hill to get a better look at them.

Well rewarded with what i am pretty sure are Hygrocybe and possibly H. persistens var. konradii rather than H. persistens due to(not shown in the images) the stems being another 30mm longer than shown above the grass tops and the clear whitening at the bases also not shown.




The mycena query is with a fungi that tricked me into thinking i had cut myself when i lifted it from the leaf litter it was growing in. I had broken the brittle stem and it was leaking a little blood like red ink. What had drawn it to my attention initially was the red marking on the waxy striated cap. Ive a couple of references to Mycena sanguinolenta where the text compares favorably but the images are a bit different.



Any help would be appreciated

Alex

[NickCantle]

Mycena looks more like Mycena crocata

[alge]

Originally Posted by NickCantle

Mycena looks more like Mycena crocata

Absolutely nick, but the milk was no way saffron/orange-ish unless i'm going colour blind.....

I've just bought a lumix tz10 gps compact so let hope my images get clearer, that cap shot was the classic mobile phone and a x10 hand held lens combo. my heath robinson days are over!!

Back to the mycena i'm sure your correct,

thanks for the steer

alex

[NickCantle]

Hmm, the other blood-red bleeding Mycena that I know is Mycena haematopus but it doesn't look like that!

[SheffieldLass]

Originally Posted by alge

I saw this troop as i drove home friday evening they were growing on a well kept thick lawn and were starkly yellow against the green of the grass so i had to pull up in a layby down the road and walk back up the hill to get a better look at them.

Well rewarded with what i am pretty sure are Hygrocybe and possibly H. persistens var. konradii rather than H. persistens due to(not shown in the images) the stems being another 30mm longer than shown above the grass tops and the clear whitening at the bases also not shown.





Alex

According to Boertmann Hygrocybe persistens var konradii is "Similar to var. persistens and only separated by the broadly ellipsoid to subglobose
spores."

It could well be H persistens of whichever variety, or it could possibly be H aurantiosplendens.

Melanie

[NickCantle]

Originally Posted by SheffieldLass

According to Boertmann Hygrocybe persistens var konradii is "Similar to var. persistens and only separated by the broadly ellipsoid to subglobose
spores."

Apparently if you knead the stipe of H. persistens var. konradii, it smells of honey, though I'm unsure if this is a confirmed method of telling the two apart

[Ken Burgess]

Originally Posted by NickCantle

Apparently if you knead the stipe of H. persistens var. konradii, it smells of honey, though I'm unsure if this is a confirmed method of telling the two apart

I've not heard of this Nick. As far as I am aware Melanie is quite right with what she says. Hygrocybe reidii and Hygrocybe splendidissima are the ones I am aware of that smell of honey. Do you recall your reference for this?

Ken

[alge]

Originally Posted by SheffieldLass

According to Boertmann Hygrocybe persistens var konradii is "Similar to var. persistens and only separated by the broadly ellipsoid to subglobose
spores."

It could well be H persistens of whichever variety, or it could possibly be H aurantiosplendens.

Melanie

Ok so now it could be one of three, colours vary greatly within a species so thats as far as i can go. I'm happy with that. I followed a link through to a site the second image down looks a great match.

http://www.leifgoodwin.co.uk/Fungi/Hygrocybe%20aurantiosplendens.html

Great to see either way

Thanks

[NickCantle]

Originally Posted by Ken Burgess

I've not heard of this Nick. As far as I am aware Melanie is quite right with what she says. Hygrocybe reidii and Hygrocybe splendidissima are the ones I am aware of that smell of honey. Do you recall your reference for this?

Ken

Do you know, I'm sure I read it in one of my books but I can't find reference to it. I know where I heard it though, but it's a PM jobby I'm afraid!