2 for id - Wood blewit (?) and a white trooper

[cowshill]

The closest I can find for this in my books is lepista nuda (wood blewit). It pulls up a lot of the forest floor with the stem, which seems a good sign, but I get no smell at all, which seems a bad one. Growing in heavy moss at the edge of spruce woods.



This second grows in large troops along the edge of the raised gravel path on my forest walk. I haven't been able to come up with any ideas at all for it.



Thanks for any help!

- Jim

[Lancashire Lad]

I would probably be thinking Wood Blewit too, but I've only ever seen a couple of them, so I wouldn't be fully certain.

The second, I think, looks like it could be Spotted Toughshank - Collybia maculata.

Regards,
Mike.

[jonbem]

Originally Posted by Lancashire Lad

I would probably be thinking Wood Blewit too, but I've only ever seen a couple of them, so I wouldn't be fully certain.


Regards,
Mike.

Mike
Get yourself over the Pennines to the right side. Already have a good couple of kg of L.Saeva. L.Nuda should be following shortly. (got one L.nuda this week but approx 1kg of saeva! in close proximity - some dried, some oiled!

Jon

[fairplay]

I've never seen pure white, unspotted Rhodocollybia maculata (them spots is dirt), so me thinks these are a type of Tricholoma.

Don't expect you smelt them by any chance ?

Neil.

[cowshill]

Originally Posted by fairplay

Don't expect you smelt them by any chance ?

I'll do so today.

[Lancashire Lad]

Originally Posted by fairplay

I've never seen pure white, unspotted Rhodocollybia maculata (them spots is dirt), so me thinks these are a type of Tricholoma....

Hi Neil,

I am nothing more than an out and out novice where fungi are concerned, and am always happy to stand corrected, but I do know of C.maculata that remain white to maturity.

These are C.maculata, from a specific – roughly 10m sq. location in which approximately 30-40 fruitbodies have appeared annually. (To my knowledge at least the last three years): -


They were confirmed as C.maculata by microscopy, (not by me I hasten to add ), following a NWFG foray which included that location last year.

The largest of these get to almost dinner-plate size, but they only seem to start "spotting", both on cap & gills, (and then only very sparsely), when they are effectively past their best.

Certainly doesn't prove the case regarding Jiim's find one way or the other though.

Regards,
Mike.

[cowshill]

Originally Posted by fairplay

I've never seen pure white, unspotted Rhodocollybia maculata (them spots is dirt), so me thinks these are a type of Tricholoma.

Don't expect you smelt them by any chance ?

Neil.

Couldn't smell anything other than the normal faint earthy-mushroomy aroma. But my nose doesn't seem too advanced. The only mushroom smell I have sensed with authority is the aniseed aroma of agaricus silvicola.

- Jim

[juliohevia]

BTW: Those are not L. Nuda/Saeva --> I would say Lepista Sordida.



Thanks,

Julio

[flaxton]

Originally Posted by juliohevia

BTW: Those are not L. Nuda/Saeva --> I would say Lepista Sordida.



Thanks,

Julio

Is this the point where we get into the Nuda/Sordida debate like last year and the year before and.......

[cowshill]

Originally Posted by flaxton

Is this the point where we get into the Nuda/Sordida debate like last year and the year before and.......

But are we definite that it is a lepista of some sort? As it's a new find for this novice, I'd at least like to be sure I have that much of the ID correct.

- Jim