 Fungi 1  Fungi 7  Fungi 13  Fungi 19  Fungi 25 |
 Fungi 2  Fungi 8  Fungi 14  Fungi 20  Fungi 26 |
 Fungi 3  Fungi 9  Fungi 15  Fungi 21  Fungi 27 |
 Fungi 4  Fungi 10  Fungi 16  Fungi 22  Fungi 28 |
 Fungi 5  Fungi 11  Fungi 17  Fungi 23  Fungi 29 |
 Fungi 6  Fungi 12  Fungi 18  Fungi 24 |
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Farthing Downs TQ304571 01 November 2014 Ray Tantram |
45 Species found |
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Species |
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Description |
Status |
Edibility |
Image | |
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Agaricus xanthodermus |
Yellow staining mushroom |
very obvious yellow on scratching stem base, gills greyish-brown, carbolic smell, esp. when cooking |
* |
P |
9 | |
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Ampulloclitocybe (Clitocybe) clavipes |
Club foot |
pale brown cap, decurrent gills, swollen stem base (foot) |
C |
* |
— | |
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Annulohypoxylon (Hypoxylon) multiforme |
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raised black hard lumps, often elongate, mostly on birch |
O |
* |
— | |
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Armillaria mellea |
Honey fungus |
very variable, tawny, whitish gills, white spores, ring on stem. Spreads via black "bootlaces" (rhizomorphs)6 strains recognised. Here only black bootlaces found, encircling fallen trunk below the bark |
C |
* |
— | |
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Ascocoryne sarcoides |
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deep violet, often convoluted small ,solid soft discs, mainly on fallen beech. Here in crack on fallen trunk |
C |
* |
— | |
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Bjerkandera adusta |
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thin bracket with grey pores |
C |
* |
— | |
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Calocera cornea |
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small gold (mainly) 'fingers' with unbranched tips on deciduous stumps |
C |
* |
— | |
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Chlorophyllum (Macrolepiota) rhacodes |
Shaggy parasol |
grows under trees, moveable ring, flesh reddens when cut or bruised. Can be digestive irritant to some |
C |
E |
7 | |
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Coprinellus (Coprinus) disseminatus |
Fairy bonnets |
tiny, greyish caps in clumps on rotting stumps |
* |
* |
1, 27 close up | |
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Coprinellus (Coprinus) micaceus |
Glistening inkcap |
small tan caps, with glistening particles, in tufts on wood |
C |
* |
15, 18 | |
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Crepidotus cesatii/variabilis |
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very similar macro features. Species need to be differentiated by spore examination |
* |
* |
— | |
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Crepidotus mollis |
'Peeling Oysterling' |
soft creamy-brown 'shells' on dead wood, elastic cap skin peels off. Here on fallen Beech trunk |
C |
* |
13 probably | |
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Dacrymyces stillatus |
Jelly spot |
small yellow to orange blobs on barkless fallen timber |
C |
* |
12 | |
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Daldinia concentrica |
King Alfred's cakes; Cramp balls |
hard crumbly brown to black balls on dead ash, diff. species on other hosts. Works as a tinder |
C |
* |
5 young material, brown 4 mature, black | |
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Delicatula integrella |
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tiny white, with very primitive, decurrent gills, on soil, damp areas nr. Willow and Alder |
U |
* |
8 | |
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Ganoderma applanatum |
Artist's fungus |
tubes in distinct layers, rarely with nipple-shaped galls of fungus fly on pores, white streaks in flesh, mainly BL wood, spores smaller than G. adspersum. See additional note |
O |
* |
25 upper surface 20 upper surface of old fungus 19 lower surface 29 lower surface with pores showing exit holes of gall fly larvae | |
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Ganoderma australe (adspersum) |
an artist's fungus |
brown thick bracket,no white streaks in context (flesh) |
C |
* |
— | |
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Gymnopus (Collybia) dryophilus |
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light tan cap dark centre, even, whitish gills, reddish typical fibrous stem |
C |
* |
— | |
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Hebeloma crustuliniforme |
Poison pie; Fairy cakes |
brownish cap, clay-coloured gills, smell of radish |
C |
P |
— | |
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Hypholoma fasciculare |
Sulphur tuft |
grows on stumps in profusion, sulphur-coloured gills darken as purplish spores mature |
C |
P |
23 | |
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Hypoxylon fragiforme |
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small hard balls, often in rows on dead beech, red going black |
C |
* |
— | |
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Inocybe lilacina |
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lilac- capped version of Inocybe. geophylla.often as pathsides |
C |
P |
— | |
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Kuehneromyces mutabilis |
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golden-brown viscous caps,margins drying paler; grows in tufts on stumps(can be confused with very poisonous Galerina marginata). Here in poor condition |
C |
* |
24 | |
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Laccaria laccata |
Deceiver |
pinky-rose-brown, 3 different gill lengths; very variable |
C |
E |
17 probably | |
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Lactarius subdulcis |
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tawny to brown cap, milk remains white on drying, esp. under beech. taste of ivy! |
C |
* |
— | |
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Lycoperdon perlatum |
Puffball |
small white puffball,grows in leaf litter, small "pearls" rub off. Here some lovely fresh specimens |
C |
E |
21 | |
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Lycoperdon pyriforme |
Puffball |
tan, pear-shaped puffball, branched mycelial cords at base, grows on wood |
C |
* |
3, 6 | |
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Marasmiellus ramealis |
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small delicate, tan cap, sparse gills often on bramble stems, also twigs etc. |
C |
* |
— | |
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Mycena arcangeliana (oortiana) |
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yellowish, long stems with lilac tints; strong smell of iodoform when dry; decid woodland litter and stumps |
U |
* |
— | |
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Mycena galericulata |
Bonnet mycena |
quite large for a bonnet cap, tan colour, gills often interlinked at lower cap surface, grows on wood |
C |
* |
— | |
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Mycena pura |
Lilac mycena |
Medium sized, pink to lilac cap, stem in BL[often beech] litter, smell of radish |
C |
P |
22 | |
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Mycena sp. |
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impossible to identify beyond genus level |
* |
* |
— | |
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Mycena vitilis |
'snapping bonnet' |
small bonnet cap, pale greyish-brown, "whippy" stem (unusual for this genus, most are fragile) |
C |
* |
— | |
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Myxomycete sp. |
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A slime mould, not a fungus. When examined later already at the next stage where the little ball fuse to form the fruiting stage |
C |
* |
— | |
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Neobulgaria pura |
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pale pink-lilac crowded jelly buttons on fallen beech |
C |
* |
11, 26 | |
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Peziza micropus |
a cup fungus |
small tan species, small stem usually present, this is the species found on rotten wood |
* |
* |
— | |
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Psathyrella sp. |
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large group all with silky brittle whitish stems, dark gills. Cannot be identified further 'in the field' |
C |
* |
— | |
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Rhodocollybia (Collybia) maculata |
Foxy spot |
quite robust, creamy, with red-brown spotting on cap and gills, fibrous stem, in leaf litter can grow in rings |
C |
* |
— | |
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Rhytisma acerinum |
Tar spot |
black patches on (mainly)sycamore, a discomycete |
C |
* |
— | |
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Sebacina incrustans |
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encrusting resupinate often,grows over bare soil and plant remains to form creamy patches, waxy. Here in moss on decayed fallen BL tree |
U |
* |
28 | |
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Sebacina incrustans |
Hairy stereum |
thin overlapping bracket, smooth golden (lower) fertile surface |
C |
* |
— | |
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Trametes (Coriolus) versicolor |
Many-coloured bracket; Turkey tails thin bracket |
creamy pores, grows in tiers on dead wood. Here old, lacking attractive bright colour bands |
C |
* |
16 | |
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Trochila ilicina |
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Discomycete. Black dots growing on underside of Holly leaves |
* |
* |
— | |
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Tubaria furfuracea |
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small cinnamon striate cap, cinnamon gills (decurrent) and stem, mainly on woody debris |
C |
* |
— | |
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Xylaria hypoxylon |
Candle-snuff fungus |
small black branches with grey tips, on dead wood, often stumps |
C |
* |
— | |
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Unidentified |
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included above, but images too indistinct to differentiate |
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2, 10, 14 |