24th November 2013, Wepham Wood near Angmering

November presses on and December looms. Too late in the year for much chance of any fabulous fungi finds. A little more than I expected but mostly small brown mushrooms and other odds and ends. However there was a couple of very young Wood Blewits and also some really old ones (not sure about these). So I went hungry this time. Decided not to eat the blewits. Very young and very old specimens can be hard to identify with certainty.


1. Unidentified.
Growing on pine needles. Cap 3cm. Faint mushroomy smell.

2. Conifer Blueing Bracket (Postia caesia).
Growing on branches. Cap 2-3cm. Slight smell. Rubbery texture. ID is best guess.

3. Sulphur Tuft (Hypholoma fasciculare).
Growing on pine needles or wood.

4. Grooved Bonnet (Mycena polygramma).
Growing on needles and/or leaves. Cap 1-3cm. The book says this grows on twigs or buried wood, which I may not have noticed. Could otherwise be another type of Bonnet. ID is best guess.

5. Pale Brittlestem (Psathyrella candolleana).
Growing on log. Cap 3cm. No smell. This part of the wood was mainly pine trees and this species grows on decidous wood, but I still think this id is probably correct. ID is very likely.

6. The Deceiver (Laccaria laccata).
Growing on pine needles etc. Cap 2-5cm. No smell. ID is almost sure.

7. Bicoloured Deceiver (Laccaria bicolor).
Growing on beech leaves or ground or needles? Cap 2-5cm. Not much smell. Some caps with umbo. The wood had beech and pine trees which is exactly what this species likes, apparently. ID is almost sure.

8. Unidentified.
Growing on beech leaves or perhaps on ground. Cap 2-3cm. Slight mealy smell.

9. Lilac Bonnet (Mycena pura).
Growing under beech. Cap 2-4cm. ID is very likely.

10. Wood Blewit (Lepista nuda).
Cap 3cm. Perfumed smell. These are very young blewits.

11. Beech Milkcap (Lactarius blennius).
Growing on beech leaf litter. Cap 6cm. Smell slight, perhaps a bit fruity. Milk very acrid after seconds. Could be another type of milkcap but Beech Milkcap is most likely. ID is best guess.

12. Hares Foot Inkcap (Coprinus lagopus).
Cap 3-5cm. No smell. ID is almost sure.

13. Turkeytail (Trametes versicolor).
Growing on deciduous tree log.

14. Wood Blewit (Lepista nuda).
Growing under beech. Cap 10-18cm. Somewhat perfumed or decaying smell. These are most likely very old Blewits, having lost all their lilac colour with age, but hard to be sure. ID is best guess.

15. Clouded Funnel (Clitocybe nebularis).
Cap 6cm.

16. Gold Flecked Woodwax (Hygrophorus chrysodon).
Cap 8cm. Slight mealy smell. White cap with yellowish tint in middle but also a thin darker rim. Originally thought this was some other type of waxcap, but I now have a more comprehensive book and so can properly identify it, 4 years later!

17. Elfin Saddle (Helvella lacunosa).
At the time I thought this was a decrepit old White Saddle, but obviously not, as there’s this grey/black coloured saddle with a faerie name.