Brook Wood and Rufus Stone
Sun 9 Oct 2005
Field event ID HF0516
OS Grid areas: SU2614 SU2712
Report: On the Sunday at Round Hill Geoffrey Kibby was joined by a reduced band of stalwarts - Sue Rogerson, Neville and Mary Desirens, Gordon Dixon, Ann Leonard, Eric Janke, Sara Cadbury, Peter Thompson, Tony and Pat Mundell and Alan Lucas and in the morning by Shelley Evans and Peter Roberts for a rather, no make that very, frustrating morning in the beech woods - almost the only fungi or at least Agarics to be found were near the odd birch tree, although Shelley did unearth a rather nice pair of Cordyceps militaris for everyone to photograph and a fresh group of Ganoderma resinaceum were seen on the way back to the cars. After lunch we moved on to the Rufus Stone and things picked up almost immediately with more fungi being found within 100m of the cars than we had seen all morning! Lots of fungi were seen in the grassland, including Agaricus porphyrocephalus, Hypholoma subericaceum and Lactarius theiogalus growing with the dwarf Salix. Probably the find of the day was Paxillus ammoniavirescens, which has a interesting, but short-lived, jade green reaction to ammonia. This was found by Eric in two locations during the afternoon - both under Salix. Overall it was a very interesting and informative weekend, even though the Russula and Bolete counts barely reached double figures…
Species list: Abortiporus biennis, Agaricus porphyrocephalus, Agaricus porphyrocephalus, Amanita citrina var. citrina, Amanita muscaria var. muscaria, Amanita muscaria var. muscaria, Amanita rubescens var. rubescens, Annulohypoxylon multiforme, Ascocoryne cylichnium, Biscogniauxia nummularia, Boletus appendiculatus, Boletus badius, Boletus badius, Boletus edulis, Boletus edulis, Botryobasidium aureum, Byssocorticium efibulatum, Calocera cornea, Ceriporiopsis gilvescens, Chalciporus piperatus, Chalciporus piperatus, Clitopilus prunulus, Clitopilus prunulus, Coprinellus micaceus, Cordyceps militaris, Cortinarius anomalus, Crepidotus applanatus, Crepidotus mollis, Daedalea quercina, Daedaleopsis confragosa, Entoloma sinuatum, Eriopezia caesia, Fistulina hepatica, Ganoderma australe, Ganoderma resinaceum, Gymnopilus junonius, Gymnopilus penetrans, Gymnopus dryophilus, Henningsomyces candidus, Hymenochaete rubiginosa, Hypholoma fasciculare, Hypocrea rufa, Incrucipulum ciliare, Laccaria amethystina, Lactarius chrysorrheus, Lactarius fulvissimus, Lactarius subumbonatus, Lactarius tabidus, Leccinum aurantiacum, Leccinum aurantiacum, Leccinum cyaneobasileucum, Leccinum cyaneobasileucum, Leccinum variicolor, Lyophyllum decastes, Meripilus giganteus, Mycena capillaris, Mycena haematopus, Mycena pura, Mycena pura, Oudemansiella mucida, Oudemansiella mucida, Panaeolus semiovatus var. semiovatus, Panellus stipticus, Paxillus ammoniavirescens, Paxillus involutus, Paxillus involutus, Phlebia lilascens, Pholiota alnicola var. alnicola, Piptoporus betulinus, Pleurotus ostreatus, Pluteus cervinus, Poronia punctata, Psathyrella piluliformis, Psathyrella piluliformis, Psilocybe semilanceata, Rigidoporus ulmarius, Russula atropurpurea, Russula claroflava, Russula graveolens, Russula olivaceoviolascens, Russula silvestris, Rutstroemia sydowiana, Schizopora paradoxa, Scleroderma citrinum, Simocybe centunculus var. centunculus, Stereum hirsutum, Stereum subtomentosum, Stereum subtomentosum, Tricholoma fulvum, Tricholoma sejunctum, Trochila ilicina, Trochila ilicina, Typhula quisquiliaris, Xylaria hypoxylon, Xylaria hypoxylon