Another one beaten me!

[hillrover]

I thought this one was going to be easy
Photographed yeaterday at Foxglove Covert LNR, Catterick, In the area of blanket pine forest some spruce some larch.

Growing on the forest floor.
Very numerous. growing in groups and singly throughout the wood.
Cap about 50p size. Height = to cap diameter.
Smell - strong mealy
Texture - fiberous. dry to touch.
Stem. brown exterior, white interior also fiberous.
Spore print - didn't get much off it but it looked white or whiteish.

Any ideas? This has driven me mad all day.

Christine (grateful for any leads)

[BROCSMAN]

These are Collybia butyracea. Old Buttercaps. They are very variable, but once you know them you'll see them everywhere.

[hillrover]

Thank you very much
This fungi lark certainly has a steep learning curve!!

Christine

[BROCSMAN]

Only the first twenty five years or so (or so I've been told - I'm only about five years into it).

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by hillrover

Thank you very much
This fungi lark certainly has a steep learning curve!!

Christine

actually, to be very picky, it's a shallow learning curve - in everyday usage it's become the opposite of what was originally meant

it's a bit like when people talk about a quantum leap, meaning something big when in fact it's the very opposite . . . .

"A "steep" learning curve, in colloquial usage, usually means experiencing a large and increasing amount of effort for a constant amount of learning, i.e. approaching a natural limit. Much the reverse is the meaning of a steep slope in a learning progress curve. A learning progress curve is steep when very little effort is required"

C

[BROCSMAN]

Thanks for that useful insight Chris. Maybe you should consider getting out a bit more...

[treecreeper]

Originally Posted by Chris Yeates

actually, to be very picky, it's a shallow learning curve - in everyday usage it's become the opposite of what was originally meant

it's a bit like when people talk about a quantum leap, meaning something big when in fact it's the very opposite . . . .

"A "steep" learning curve, in colloquial usage, usually means experiencing a large and increasing amount of effort for a constant amount of learning, i.e. approaching a natural limit. Much the reverse is the meaning of a steep slope in a learning progress curve. A learning progress curve is steep when very little effort is required"

C

I'd be downbeat about my prospects of becoming a competent mycologist, except that the conductor's downbeat is the strong one, the upbeat being weaker

[PMG]

Originally Posted by treecreeper

I'd be downbeat about my prospects of becoming a competent mycologist, except that the conductor's downbeat is the strong one, the upbeat being weaker

I like where this is leading!! LOL