Marlborough Deeps
Sun 27 Aug 2006
Field event ID HF0607
OS Grid areas: SZ2298 SZ2299
Report: Peter Thompson, who was down from the Midlands for the weekend met nine others at Brownhill car park before setting off to Marlborough Deeps to find some damp patches of woodland. The approach over the heathland produced very few fruitbodies and we were hard pressed to find any tremella on the gorse. In the marl pits there were a few more fungi although still few and far between. There was interest in small intensely green patches erupting through the bark of a fallen oak. Sara recognised this as the anamorph Trichoderma viride. Trichodermas include the fungus that is used to produce 'stone washed' jeans and if you want read further on this have a look at Tom Volk's website at http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/Toms_fungi/nov2004.html . There were a few Pluteus about including P nanus and a pale capped fruitbody we named as P bouderi (Courtecuisse) in the field but looking at the British Checklist this has been synonymised with P plautus. B&K has a photo of the pale version inset along with a discussion of white pluteus species. The most prolific display of the day was a log covered with Coprinus disseminatus (Fairy inkcap) providing a photo opportunity for all.
Species list: Annulohypoxylon multiforme, Calocera cornea, Chlorociboria aeruginascens, Clitopilus hobsonii, Coprinellus disseminatus, Dacrymyces stillatus, Daedaleopsis confragosa, Fuligo septica var. septica, Fuscoporia ferrea, Gymnopus dryophilus, Hemimycena tortuosa, Heterobasidion annosum, Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca, Hymenochaete cinnamomea, Hyphodontia arguta, Hypholoma ericaeum, Hypomyces aurantius, Hypoxylon rubiginosum, Laccaria laccata, Lachnum virgineum, Laetiporus sulphureus, Marasmius rotula, Mollisia cinerea, Mycoacia uda, Parasola leiocephala, Peniophora quercina, Phellinus igniarius, Piptoporus betulinus, Pleurotus ostreatus, Pluteus cervinus, Pluteus nanus, Pluteus plautus, Rhopographus filicinus, Rickenella fibula, Russula caerulea, Russula claroflava, Russula fragilis var. fragilis, Russula luteotacta, Russula nitida, Schizopora paradoxa, Scopuloides rimosa, Stereum hirsutum, Tremella mesenterica, Trichaptum abietinum, Trichoderma, Trochila ilicina, Typhula quisquiliaris, Tyromyces chioneus, Xylaria carpophila, Xylaria hypoxylon, Xylaria longipes