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17-10-2010, 10:32 PM
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| | | Purple Lepiota (I think)
Found this little one growing by itself in the decomposing wood under a log in Hampshire. Log too old to ID but quite big in mixed deciduous woodland.
It looks very much like a Lepiota but the colour looks very different to any of the ones in my Rogers. Cap approx 15-17mm ø stipe about 30mm long.
Can anyone tell me which one it is (or if it's something completely different)
Thanks
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17-10-2010, 10:37 PM
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| | | Re: Purple Lepiota (I think)
hi Laura
did it have a distinctive smell?
Chris
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17-10-2010, 10:59 PM
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| | | Re: Purple Lepiota (I think)
oh dear. I'm definitely the worst person to ask since I have very little sense of smell. I've just given it my best sniff and reckon it smells faintly of mushroom.
Suspect that's not very helpful
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18-10-2010, 09:54 AM
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| | | Re: Purple Lepiota (I think)
Maybe Chris was thinking of Cystolepiota bucknallii which smells strongly of gas tar, but this cap is too scurfy, so I think you have a recently introduced Alien  Lepiota species.
Neil.
EDIT: Just done a bit of searching and at the other extreme there is the possibility it could be Lepiota fuscovinacea, but in this case the cap is too scaly.
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18-10-2010, 05:03 PM
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| | | Re: Purple Lepiota (I think)
Hi Laura
I have looked through all my Lepiota photo’s and I can not find anything like it either.
Peter
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18-10-2010, 09:45 PM
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| | | Re: Purple Lepiota (I think)
Thanks everyone. Andrew smelled it and couldn't detect any unusual smell either so I guess I will put it down as a mystery Lepiota.
If anyone wants the desiccated reamins they are very welcome....
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18-10-2010, 10:24 PM
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| | | Re: Purple Lepiota (I think)
That's another possible new species for Britain consigned to the rubbish heap then.
Kew would be most interested but the specimen is probably rotten now. 
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18-10-2010, 11:35 PM
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| | | Re: Purple Lepiota (I think)
Neil,
It's dried rather than rotten, has shrunk a bit as it dried and the colours aren't the same any more. I've got it in a little pot at the moment, so if you think it's worth sending I can easily do that.
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19-10-2010, 06:46 AM
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| | | Re: Purple Lepiota (I think)
Phew !!
It may be better to contact Stuart Skeates first of the Hampshire Fungus Recording Group, just google it up, click on membership>contact and send him an email or give him a ring at the number given.
People are away on holiday at Kew and they are presently inundated with samples and emails to reply to.
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20-10-2010, 08:44 AM
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| | | Re: Purple Lepiota (I think)
Quote:
Originally Posted by Morchella  Found this little one growing by itself in the decomposing wood under a log in Hampshire. Log too old to ID but quite big in mixed deciduous woodland.
It looks very much like a Lepiota but the colour looks very different to any of the ones in my Rogers. Cap approx 15-17mm ø stipe about 30mm long.
Can anyone tell me which one it is (or if it's something completely different)
Thanks
Laura | Hi Laura,
Take a look at Lepiota fuscovinacea.
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