Deadwater Valley Reserve
Sun 22 Apr 2007
Field event ID HF0702
OS Grid areas: SU8034
Weather: A dry mild day following weeks of next to no rainfall.
Report: With such dry weather expectations were not high of finding abundant fresh fruitbodies. In the event we practised our skills at recognising the dried remains of bracket fungi on fallen wood. It was interesting to see that the colours in the grey pores of Bjerkanera adusta and the orange-pink pores of Skeletocutis amorpha were still quite obvious unlike the greys in the cap surface of Trametes versicolor which had faded. There were however a few fresh fungi of which the most photogenic was Mitrula paludosa (Bog Beacon) showing it's bright orange tip in a patch of water next to the pond. A small oak twig harbouring small young fruitbodies was taken away and tenderly incubated by Alan! They turned out to be Lachnum bicolor (Dasyscyphus as was) which was a new record for Hampshire although it had a familiar appearance. As a result of Brian Gale's rust workshop last spring we found a couple of rusts and one found by Jacquey on a bamboo leaf is still being checked out but either option under consideration would be another first for Hampshire - check out bamboo in future!
Species list: Auricularia auricula-judae, Bjerkandera adusta, Daedaleopsis confragosa, Datronia mollis, Dialonectria episphaeria, Ganoderma australe, Heterobasidion annosum, Hymenochaete rubiginosa, Hyphodontia crustosa, Hypholoma fasciculare var. fasciculare, Hypoxylon fuscum, Ischnoderma benzoinum, Kuehneola uredinis, Lachnum bicolor, Melanomma pulvis-pyrius, Mensularia radiata, Mitrula paludosa, Panellus stipticus, Peniophora quercina, Phellinus igniarius, Phleogena faginea, Schizopora paradoxa, Skeletocutis amorpha, Skeletocutis lenis, Stereum hirsutum, Trametes gibbosa, Trametes versicolor, Trochila ilicina, Vuilleminia comedens, Xylaria longipes