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11-11-2010, 02:08 PM
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| | | Beautiful fungus but no id.
Can anyone help with this one, please?
Cap about the size of a 50p. Growing in the leaf and twig litter in mixed woodland in North Yorkshire (Thorpe Perrow again). Photographed in early October.
It has defeated my efforts at id by book and web. Any clues gratefully received.
Christine  |
11-11-2010, 04:42 PM
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| | | Re: Beautiful fungus but no id.
Hi
I think it is a small specimen of Buttercap - Collybia butyracea
Peter
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11-11-2010, 05:14 PM
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| | | Re: Beautiful fungus but no id.
Thanks Peter. That does look a possibility.
I just wonder about the stem, on my picture it looks a bit chunky rather than the tapering stem shown in pictures of Collybia butyracea.
There were about 10 of these dotted about the immediate area and all were a similar height.  Christine |
11-11-2010, 06:19 PM
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| | | Re: Beautiful fungus but no id.
They are a bit small
Let's see if anyone comes up with an alternative suggestion.
Peter
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11-11-2010, 06:48 PM
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| | | Re: Beautiful fungus but no id.
The umbo in the centre of the cap is a bit unusual for Collybia s.l. but that's what I think they are. Maybe Gymopus dryophilus looking a bit darker than usual because it hasn't dried out?
Ken |
12-11-2010, 08:45 AM
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| | | Re: Beautiful fungus but no id.
Thanks very much for your help.
I'll look for them again next year and with my new found learning I might manage to take a spore print and a quick shufti through my brand new (so far unused) misroscope. 
Christine | | |
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