This
Inocybe was growing close to sycamore and rhododendron, in a bit of mixed woodland (semi-natural close to the beck, but planted with conifers and other plantation trees in higher bits).
I hadn't even thought of it as
Inocybe when I saw it because of the colour. I was thinking more of
Pholiota. However as it has dried out since I collected it, it does look like Inocybe, appearing more fibrous and the cap more ochre brown. And has the typical
Inocybe cheilocystidia/pleurocysidia. The cheilocystidia seemed to be all like the pleurocystidia, and there weren't any obvious smaller clavate ones that some Inocybe have.
Spores smooth (7.9) 8.5-10.0 (10.7) x (5.2) 5.3-5.8 (6.0) um Qav 1.7 (Average 9.2 x 5.5um)
The gills have turned light olive brown - the spores are quite light brown coloured. Pileipellis hyphae have some incrusted pigment, but the bit I looked wasn't heavily incrusted. It does have a smell - sort of mealy fragrant, not typically fungoid though (and nothing like the off-mealy smell of Entolomas, this is quite pleasant). Not sure if it is pelagonium smell, but it
could be
. No pelagoniums around here for me to compare it with though. I think raw pastry smell is the most accurate description I can come up with, at least that is the smell as it is drying.
With Funga Nordica I think it puts it in the Splendentes group. But then I grind to a halt ..... Looking at FOS, they have
Inocybe vaccina, which looks something like, but that doesn't seem to feature in Funga Nordica at all, but is on the British list, and doesn't seem to have any alternative names. So suggestions very welcome. I thought the colour ought to make it fairly easy to pin down ... but I should know better.
And then there is this
Pholiota. Growing under birch, most probably on buried birch, but it is the edge of a fairly recently felled site, so it could have other conifer remnants (possibly Corsican Pine, as they've recently felled those near the tree nursery site, as it harbours a pathogen, or Sitka spruce).
These were quite big, up to 75mm dia. No obvious ring. Very bitter. A pleasant aromatic smell. It was very wet when the photo was taken, so clearly these are not translucently striate, but the caps may be appearing smoother than they would normally be. Caps not viscid though, merely damp, and then drying dry (no gelatinised elements on the pileipellis).
With cheilocystidia:
Also very yellow pigmented 'things', not sure if they are cheilocystidia or basidia, but they were only present close to the gill edge.
I couldn't find any pleurocystidia that I was convinced by, certainly no typically shaped chrysopleurocystidia.
Spores without an obvious germ pore.
(7.1) 7.4-8.1 (8.7) x (4.3) 4.8-5.3 (5.6) um, Q av 1.5
Average 7.8 x 5.1um
Clamps present
I've gone round and round in circles with this one, using Funga Nordica and FAN4. So any help welcomed.
Melanie
Linear Mode
