Some fungi for id

[Ken Burgess]

Originally Posted by SheffieldLass

Just been and checked and there is a lot of willow there. I just needed to follow the bumblebees

I guess insects and fungi are a lot better at tree identification than we are.

Ken

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by SheffieldLass

Just been and checked and there is a lot of willow there. I just needed to follow the bumblebees to it! But a strange mix of flora. On one side of the ride there is acidic flora, sheep sorrel, heather, whilst the other is not obviously acidic and has campanula. The ride is limestone chippings.

cheers
Melanie

Interesting - the last time I saw T. cingulatum it was under sallows on a derelict site near Kiveton Park station (remember there, Melanie?), following the WAB foray at Anston Stones Wood last autumn; here it was in damp mossy ground with lots of concrete rubble (so base-rich):


cheers

Chris

[mollisia]

Hello,

I would agree to all three names Ken proposes. The first one looks like an Inocybe phaeocomis from the cap, but the stipe is not very convinving.
The tree is on of those innummerable Sorbus hybrids, most probably Sorbus intermedia or similar tot his.

best regards,
Andreas

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by mollisia

. . . . .
The tree is on of those innummerable Sorbus hybrids, most probably Sorbus intermedia or similar tot his.

best regards,
Andreas

Originally Posted by Chris Yeates

Not Morus alba . . . and it appears to have cuneate leaf bases - so not M. nigra either - Sorbus sp. or hybrid? . . . . .

aha! original thought vindicated . . . .

C

[mollisia]

Originally Posted by Chris Yeates

aha! original thought vindicated . . . .

C

Yepp Sorry for didn't mention you, though I read your posting

best regards,
Andreas

[diggleken]

Originally Posted by Chris Yeates

aha! original thought vindicated . . . .

C

Well done Chris - its just that theres no fissuring on the bark apparent, but as Andreas says, theyre innumerable - and often confusing.......................
Cheers
Ken

[SheffieldLass]

Well the tree is nearby so when it starts to come into leaf/flower I'll have a closer look at it. I'm not very good at tree id in the winter with many species, and that includes some evergreen conifers . I need some lessons from the local forestry guys ...

Yesterday I thought I'd come across a whole load of small yews. On closer inspection of a more mature specimen I noticed they had cones and realised they were Western Hemlock . I do now know Douglas Fir, nice spicy citrus smell to the leaves. And my Lodgepole from Scots and Corsican pines. But I still need to fathom out the larches as they'll be disappearing from here in the next few years, at least the Japanese larch is scheduled to be felled to try to stem the spread of Phytophthora ramorum. So far the Hybrid and European larch have not shown susceptibilty. But just discovered that Douglas Fir is susceptible. I think there's going to be a lot of sawing in the woods soon ...

BTW Latest update from the Forestry Commission on P ramorum:
Forestry Commission - P. ramorum - national update

Cheers
Melanie