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.
- 1. Unidentified
- 1. Unidentified
- 1. Unidentified
Growing on pine needles. Cap 3cm. Faint mushroomy smell.
2. Conifer Blueing Bracket (Postia caesia).
- 2. Conifer Blueing Bracket
- 2. Conifer Blueing Bracket
Growing on branches. Cap 2-3cm. Slight smell. Rubbery texture. ID is best guess.
3. Sulphur Tuft (Hypholoma fasciculare).
- 3. Sulphur Tuft
- 3. Sulphur Tuft
Growing on pine needles or wood.
4. Grooved Bonnet (Mycena polygramma).
- 4. Grooved Bonnet
- 4. Grooved Bonnet
- 4. Grooved Bonnet
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).
- 5. Pale Brittlestem
- 5. Pale Brittlestem
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).
- 6. The Deceiver
- 6. The Deceiver
- 6. The Deceiver
Growing on pine needles etc. Cap 2-5cm. No smell. ID is almost sure.
7. Bicoloured Deceiver (Laccaria bicolor).
- 7. Bicoloured Deceiver
- 7. Bicoloured Deceiver
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.
- 8. Unidentified
- 8. Unidentified
Growing on beech leaves or perhaps on ground. Cap 2-3cm. Slight mealy smell.
9. Lilac Bonnet (Mycena pura).
- 9. Lilac Bonnet
- 9. Lilac Bonnet
Growing under beech. Cap 2-4cm. ID is very likely.
10. Wood Blewit (Lepista nuda).
- 10. Wood Blewit
- 10. Wood Blewit
- 10. Wood Blewit
Cap 3cm. Perfumed smell. These are very young blewits.
11. Beech Milkcap (Lactarius blennius).
- 11. Beech Milkcap
- 11. Beech Milkcap
- 11. Beech Milkcap
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).
- 12. Hares Foot Inkcap
- 12. Hares Foot Inkcap
- 12. Hares Foot Inkcap
- 12. Hares Foot Inkcap
Cap 3-5cm. No smell. ID is almost sure.
13. Turkeytail (Trametes versicolor).
- 13. Turkeytail
- 13. Turkeytail
Growing on deciduous tree log.
14. Wood Blewit (Lepista nuda).
- 14. Wood Blewit
- 14. Wood Blewit
- 14. Wood Blewit
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).
- 15. Clouded Funnel
- 15. Clouded Funnel
Cap 6cm.
16. Gold Flecked Woodwax (Hygrophorus chrysodon).
- 16. Gold Flecked Woodwax
- 16. Gold Flecked Woodwax
- 16. Gold Flecked Woodwax
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).
- 17. Elfin Saddle
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.