Deadwater
Sat 22 Oct 2005
Field event ID HF0518
OS Grid areas: SU8034
Report: Deadwater was a new foray site for us, situated on the outskirts of Bordon a largely army residential town. Mike Wearing, the site warden, met us at the car park and briefly showed us around the varied habitats of the site before leaving us to conduct a more detailed exploration. It was very helpful to be accompanied by Dr Bill Wain, Chairman of the Deadwater reserve committee for parts of the day. The site had areas of deciduous and coniferous woodland and an area of old grassland which was not heavily grazed. There was a stream on one boundary of the site. The varied habitats helped to provide a good variety of fungi and we collected around 120 species in the day. There was discussion over a couple of cortinarius species which were recorded as C hemitrichus associated with birch and C paleaceus a similar looking species smelling of pelargonium and associated with conifers. I then made the mistake of looking at the new British Checklist where I see that C paleaceus has probably been misapplied to all British records and the specimens are probably C flexipes var. flabellus. There two varieties of C flexipes both smelling of pelargonium but var. flexipes has violet/blue shades in it which are not present in var. flabellus. In addition var. flabellus only has squamules in the centre of the cap when young. The site was very promising with varied habitats and we all felt it would bear further examination.
Species list: Agaricus sylvaticus, Amanita citrina var. citrina, Amanita fulva, Amanita muscaria var. muscaria, Amanita rubescens var. rubescens, Amphinema byssoides, Armillaria ostoyae, Ascocoryne cylichnium, Bisporella sulfurina, Bjerkandera adusta, Boletus badius, Boletus edulis, Boletus pruinatus, Calocera cornea, Calocera glossoides, Calocera viscosa, Cantharellus cibarius, Ceriporiopsis gilvescens, Chlorociboria aeruginascens, Chondrostereum purpureum, Clavulina coralloides, Clavulinopsis luteoalba, Clitopilus hobsonii, Coniophora olivacea, Cordyceps canadensis, Cortinarius delibutus, Cortinarius flexipes var. flabellus, Cortinarius hemitrichus, Crepidotus epibryus, Crepidotus variabilis, Daedaleopsis confragosa, Datronia mollis, Exidia nucleata, Exidiopsis calcea, Fuscoporia ferrea, Ganoderma australe, Gymnopilus penetrans, Hebeloma radicosum, Helvella crispa, Hemimycena tortuosa, Henningsomyces candidus, Heterobasidion annosum, Heterobasidion annosum, Hygrocybe chlorophana, Hymenoscyphus fructigenus, Hymenoscyphus lutescens, Hyphodontia pallidula, Hypholoma fasciculare, Hypochniciellum ovoideum, Hypochnicium erikssonii, Hypoxylon fuscum, Hypoxylon rubiginosum, Kuehneromyces mutabilis, Laccaria amethystina, Laccaria laccata, Lachnum niveum, Lactarius glyciosmus, Leccinum variicolor, Lyophyllum decastes, Melanotus horizontalis, Mensularia radiata, Mycena arcangeliana, Mycena epipterygia, Mycena galericulata, Mycena galopus var. galopus, Mycena haematopus, Mycena polygramma, Mycena rorida, Mycoacia uda, Naucoria bohemica, Naucoria melinoides, Paxillus involutus, Peniophora quercina, Peniophorella praetermissa, Phallus impudicus, Phellinus igniarius, Phlebia radiata, Phlebia tremellosa, Phlebiella sulphurea, Physisporinus sanguinolentus, Physisporinus vitreus, Piptoporus betulinus, Pluteus cervinus, Pluteus salicinus, Polyporus leptocephalus, Pseudohydnum gelatinosum, Radulomyces confluens, Resinicium bicolor, Rhodocollybia butyracea, Rhodocollybia maculata, Russula aquosa, Russula atropurpurea, Russula claroflava, Russula cyanoxantha, Russula fellea, Russula fragilis var. fragilis, Russula ochroleuca, Russula sphagnophila, Russula violeipes, Sarcomyxa serotina, Schizopora paradoxa, Scleroderma areolatum, Scleroderma citrinum, Skeletocutis nivea, Stereum gausapatum, Stereum hirsutum, Stereum rugosum, Tapinella panuoides, Tomentellopsis echinospora, Trametes versicolor, Tremella foliacea, Trichaptum abietinum, Tricholoma fulvum, Tricholoma sulphureum, Tricholomopsis rutilans, Tubaria furfuracea, Tyromyces chioneus, Xylaria carpophila, Xylaria hypoxylon