Some fungi for id

[SheffieldLass]

These were a few that I didn't get round to looking at properly last autumn, so only field pictures of them, and some observations that I managed to record ...

Sept 30 under the tree shown but also fairly close to oak (also id for tree would be helpful too Is it mulberry?) ... An Inocybe, but any chance of getting it to species level?

tree ...




Oct 6th, under birch, acid soil, in mixed coniferous woodland. Another Inocybe, I presume. A pretty one.




Then these Tricholoma, Oct 6th, which were quite prolific, growing in banks at the edge of forest rides, under birch/pine/mixed coniferous. No obvious smell.




And on Sept 18th, under Picea, in a ring, which I decided were probably Leucopaxillus but wasn't sure which they might be.


Thanks
Melanie

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by SheffieldLass

. . . id for tree would be helpful too Is it mulberry?) . . .
Thanks
Melanie

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

Chris

PS astonished that you're having to dig up last year's sweepings when there's so much currently out there ; I don't know, Melanie, what have you got against Asco's? It's borderline racism

[SheffieldLass]

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?

Chris

PS astonished that you're having to dig up last year's sweepings when there's so much currently out there ; I don't know, Melanie, what have you got against Asco's? It's borderline racism

Not much here at all except white mycelium and last autumn's records that I'm still trying to get up to date.

Melanie

[Ken Burgess]

Hi Melanie

I'll pass on the first one but the second must be Cortinarius rather than Inocybe. The cap texture indicates Cortinarius hemitrichus or one of the species in the Cortinarius flexipes complex. Did it have any smell?

As for your Tricholoma, with that distinctive ring on the stem in can only be Tricholoma cingulatum, which suggests there must have been some willow around.

I'm not sure about the last one but the colour and spacing of the decurrent gills have the look of Ampulloclitocybe clavipes, although the cap shape doesn't look quite right.

Ken

[diggleken]

The tree looks like White Mulberry, Morus alba, with those variable blunt lobes to me Melanie - I cant see it being anything else, not that I ever disagree with Chris of course...................If its really crucial, post it on the tree forum, Dorts will know I bet!
Not a huge amount of fungi round me either, been quite dry for a couple of weeks now, keep finding the odd tiny slimy stuff though.
Lichens are an interesting good fun bet when its dry.................
Cheers
Ken

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by diggleken

The tree looks like White Mulberry, Morus alba, with those variable blunt lobes to me Melanie - I cant see it being anything else, not that I ever disagree with Chris of course...................

Ken

by all means disagree, Ken. The leaves looked very dull to me that was all

if it is a Mulberry then I would say that to the best of my knowledge there are no mycorrhizal fungi with it in this country and so it's probably irrelevant for an ID

I should have had a closer look at that Tricholoma, Ken B is of course spot on; it is known from the Dalby Forest area

cheers

Chris

[SheffieldLass]

Thanks everyone, and especially Ken.

I've just checked my notes, but didn't record any smell for the Cortinarius, which either means it didn't have a distinctive smell or I didn't sniff it ... though I did call it a Cortinarius at the time I saw it ... only I changed my mind later on

I'd dismissed Tricholoma cingulatum as the habitat didn't seem right at least as described in Funga Nordica. It is generally acid heathland/plantation where these were, though they were close to the forest ride which would have been maintained with limestone chippings. And the geology is a bit mixed up in the area, so it might just be a pocket of Corallian Limestone, and I hadn't noticed, though there was a slightly differnt flora there, come to think of it, which I thought was due to someone dumping garden plants or the site of a former cottage. I'll have to have a closer look at that ride to see if there is willow, and to look more closely at the plant composition - I haven't visited that one often so only know the dominant tree species in the plantation. There is willow in some parts of the forest though.

I can now see why you thought of Ampulloclitocybe clavipes. That site is only 5 minutes from my house so maybe I'll find it again this autumn.

Melanie

[SheffieldLass]

Originally Posted by Chris Yeates

by all means disagree, Ken. The leaves looked very dull to me that was all

if it is a Mulberry then I would say that to the best of my knowledge there are no mycorrhizal fungi with it in this country and so it's probably irrelevant for an ID

cheers

Chris

It was one of the trees next to the Forest Research office, if that helps ... And the Inocybe (well a few of them) were definitely under that particular tree.

Melanie

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by SheffieldLass

It was one of the trees next to the Forest Research office . . .

Melanie

surely they know what it is

the clue is in the question . . .

Chris

[SheffieldLass]

Originally Posted by Ken Burgess

Hi Melanie


As for your Tricholoma, with that distinctive ring on the stem in can only be Tricholoma cingulatum, which suggests there must have been some willow around.

Ken

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