Unidentified spring fungi from Lound

[FungiJohn]

Hello all

On Sunday Les, John and I had another interesting day at Lound.

The majority of species were mainly associated with Willow, whilst one was confined to rotting potato skins!

Any help or comments, are as ever much appreciated!

A possible Entoloma found growing in sand under Willow:



Growing on dead Willow without bark. Size approx 1.3mm dia:



Growing through bark on dead Willow. Size approx 9mm dia Cap:



Growing on rotting Potato skins:



Growing in soil (sandy) in same area as potato skins. Size approx 1-1/2mm dia:



We did get the ocassional common one too, such as Tubaria furfuracea OR was that Tubaria hiemalis

John et al

[mollisia]

Hello,

the first one is a Melanoleuca. With such grey colours and the pulverescent cap it should be possible to determinate. I would point to M. humilis.

The 2nd is a Dacrymyces species or a Guepinopsis (buccina).

The 3rd is Phaeomarasmius erinaceus, usually growing on twigs in the air in dense bushy vegetation (willow bushes with Salix aurita etc., rose bushes with Rosa canina ....)

4th no idea, is it a fungus?

5th could be all, there microscopy would be needed. looks as if it had a whitish crenulate margin?

best regards,
Andreas

[FungiJohn]

Originally Posted by mollisia

Hello,

the first one is a Melanoleuca. With such grey colours and the pulverescent cap it should be possible to determinate. I would point to M. humilis.

The 2nd is a Dacrymyces species or a Guepinopsis (buccina).

The 3rd is Phaeomarasmius erinaceus, usually growing on twigs in the air in dense bushy vegetation (willow bushes with Salix aurita etc., rose bushes with Rosa canina ....)

4th no idea, is it a fungus?

5th could be all, there microscopy would be needed. looks as if it had a whitish crenulate margin?

best regards,
Andreas

Hello Andreas and many thanks for this.

Yes, Melanoleuca but not sure if M. humilis is British. I seem to remember a similar thread where the problems of identifying Melanoleuca, even at microscopic level wasn't easy.

I kept saying erinaceus but forgot the Phaeomarasmius

Thanks again!

John

[FungiJohn]

After the comment by Andreas and reply from Nick I can confirm that the material found on the potato skins are just colonies of bacteria

At least Les found something 'fungal' whilst kneeling over these little devils

John

PS

Just noticed Chris online so included this fungus on Sedge in the same area:

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by FungiJohn

After the comment by Andreas and reply from Nick I can confirm that the material found on the potato skins are just colonies of bacteria

At least Les found something 'fungal' whilst kneeling over these little devils

John

PS

Just noticed Chris online so included this fungus on Sedge in the same area:

the top one at least looks like an Arthrinium species - there are several which occur on Carex . . . . microscope job

Chris

[FungiJohn]

Cheers Chris

John