Fungus ID please, possibly a Waxcap?

[alindsay]

Neil

Hope your chicken thigh hunger is satiated, but confused I am !!!!!!

Was slimy, no garlic smellling or cream visible.

My specimen could have been Buttercap, no Cointreau apparent.

To make sure it wasn't M.cucumis, am having a glass of wine.

Will chocolate make it better?

Looking at the butter in the fridge and caps in the hall cupboard, I am none the wiser ......

[fairplay]

Can't talk just now, me mouth's full - I'm scoffing down my Tesco's finest Xmas pudding and finishing off the cream with another added shot of Cointreau (I had a large bottle given me for Xmas and I hate the stuff on its own)

Neil.

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by stickman

Hi all

Looks a lot like Macrocystidia cucumis to me...

that was my first thought but a slimy cap doesn't quite match up to a pileal surface covered in cystidia . . . . .

Chris

[mollisia]

Hello,

I also would bet my microscope that this is Macrocystidia cucumis. When it rains, you don't see the pruinose layer of the cap, and why shouldn't it then have a, say, slippery cap. I doesn't look really slimy either, at least not what I recognize as "slimy" when handling wet Phlegmacium species

best regards,
Andreas

[fairplay]

Originally Posted by mollisia

Hello,

I also would bet my microscope that this is Macrocystidia cucumis. When it rains, you don't see the pruinose layer of the cap, and why shouldn't it then have a, say, slippery cap. I doesn't look really slimy either, at least not what I recognize as "slimy" when handling wet Phlegmacium species

best regards,
Andreas

You can afford to loose your microscope because you have the Zeiss Jena factory next door, you lucky so and so.

Neil.

[alindsay]

Thanks Andreas

Perhaps slippery was a more accurate description of the cap, but I didn't get the smell. Must clear the tubes next time before sniffing

However as a microscope is at stake here, I wouldn't now doubt that it is Macrocystidia cucumis for a minute.

Thanks also to Chris & Neil

[mollisia]

Hello Neil,

Originally Posted by fairplay

You can afford to loose your microscope because you have the Zeiss Jena factory next door, you lucky so and so.

Neil.

lucky???
To pass by every day a factory with microscopes that are very good - but I can't afford .... Yes, that's really great luck

best regards,
Andreas

[mollisia]

Hello,

Originally Posted by alindsay

but I didn't get the smell. Must clear the tubes next time before sniffing

or put away the cigar before sniffing
If the fruitbody isn't damaged at all, it doesn't smell. But if you bruise the gills, you should have the smell without problems usually.

Originally Posted by alindsay

However as a microscope is at stake here, I wouldn't now doubt that it is Macrocystidia cucumis for a minute.

hehe, good bluff, isn't it

best regards,
Andreas