What is this mushroom

[fairplay]

(*) let us never forget, for example - there is no such thing as "fish"

How many fishes are there in the sea ... nah, don't sound right.

Neil.

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by Iona F

. . . . . someone posted about Collybia butyracea using a different name the other day, talk about pulling the rug from under your feet! Seems even the most everyday fungi get the name changing treatment. . . . . .

think what happened to Coprinus!

one can understand how the pinkish-spored butyracea never really sat happily with the type of Collybia which is white-spored Collybia tuberosa - the species now remaining in Collybia - tuberosa, cirrhata and cookei (especially when one includes their lifestyles) clearly form a discrete group

so anything that couldn't be maintained in the better-understood Collybia had to have a new name . . . . (originally it was described in 1792 by Bulliard as Agaricus butyraceus Bull.) so it keeps the specific epithet, which had to change to butyracea - because Collybia and Rhodocollybia are feminine (trust me - you have to look veeeeeeeeeeery carefully)

what could be simpler?

C

Chris

[Iona F]

Believe it or not Chris, that actually does make it seem a lot simpler!

Makes me wish I'd studied latin at school that's for sure. Logically I can often work parts of it out, but there's an element of groping in the dark... Now if you could just be around to explain every time one of these confuses me?

Next up, Xerocomus!