Whitley Wood
Sun 7 Oct 2007
Field event ID HF0720
OS Grid areas: SU2905 SU3005
Weather: There was still no sign of any significant amounts of rain yet this autumn and the ground remained only slightly damp with few agarics as yet.
New Records:
New to Hampshire: Russula pseudo-olivascens
Report: In what should be the peak period of the year we were joined by five new forayers today to see if the major autumn flush was about to start. As the day progressed it was clear this was not the case although we were to find some exciting fungi on wood again. Early on we found some beautiful specimens of Chlorociboria aeruginascens (Green Elfcup) and the minute white tubes of Henningsomyces candidus.One beech tree had brackets of both Perenniporia fraxinea and Ganoderma australe (Southern Bracket) one above the other a few inches apart providing a good opportunity to compare them. It was also a day for unusual hosts with Oudemansiella mucida (Porcelain Fungus) clearly on an oak tree and Hymenochaete corrugata (Glue Crust) on oak and chestnut. Just before returning to the cars Alan showed us a fine fruitbody of Phellinus cavicola, a species only known from about ten trees in the New Forest and a few other sites in southern England. This was followed up by two separate and virtually simultaneous finds of the oily smelling Gloeohypochnicium analogum by Sue and Alan, a fungus not to be touched as the smell seem to last for days.It was only following later examination of one of the Russulas that Alan and Eric realised they had found the rare Russula pseudo-olivascens which had really only been seen previously in Wales.
Species list: Amanita citrina var. alba, Amanita citrina var. citrina, Amanita muscaria var. muscaria, Ampulloclitocybe clavipes, Ascodichaena rugosa, Aurantiporus alborubescens, Biscogniauxia nummularia, Bjerkandera adusta, Boletus badius, Boletus edulis, Boletus luridiformis var. luridiformis, Botryobasidium aureum, Calocera cornea, Cheilymenia fimicola, Chlorociboria aeruginascens, Chlorophyllum rachodes, Clitocybe nebularis, Clitopilus hobsonii, Clitopilus prunulus, Coprinopsis picacea, Daedaleopsis confragosa, Fistulina hepatica, Fomitiporella cavicola, Fuscoporia ferrea, Fuscoporia ferruginosa, Galerina marginata, Ganoderma australe, Ganoderma pfeifferi, Gloeohypochnicium analogum, Gymnopilus junonius, Gymnopilus penetrans, Gymnopus dryophilus, Gymnopus fusipes, Henningsomyces candidus, Hydnum repandum, Hydropus floccipes, Hymenochaete corrugata, Hymenochaete corrugata, Hymenochaete rubiginosa, Hymenoscyphus calyculus, Hyphoderma roseocremeum, Hypholoma fasciculare var. fasciculare, Hypoxylon fragiforme, Inocybe pyriodora, Inonotus cuticularis, Laccaria amethystina, Laccaria laccata, Lactarius quietus, Lactarius subumbonatus, Lactarius tabidus, Lactarius turpis, Leccinum scabrum, Lycoperdon nigrescens, Megacollybia platyphylla, Mycena galericulata, Mycena galopus var. galopus, Mycena haematopus, Mycena inclinata, Mycena pelianthina, Mycena pura, Neodasyscypha cerina, Oudemansiella mucida, Oudemansiella mucida, Parasola leiocephala, Peniophorella praetermissa, Perenniporia fraxinea, Peziza micropus, Phallus impudicus var. impudicus, Phanerochaete velutina, Phlebia livida, Phlebia rufa, Phlebia tremellosa, Piptoporus betulinus, Pluteus cervinus, Pluteus chrysophaeus, Pluteus salicinus, Psathyrella candolleana, Radulomyces confluens, Rhodocollybia butyracea, Rhopographus filicinus, Russula atropurpurea, Russula fragilis var. fragilis, Russula nigricans, Russula ochroleuca, Russula pseudo-olivascens, Russula risigallina, Schizopora paradoxa, Scleroderma citrinum, Scopuloides rimosa, Simocybe centunculus var. centunculus, Skeletocutis nivea, Stereum hirsutum, Stropharia semiglobata, Trametes versicolor, Tremella mesenterica, Xerula radicata, Xylaria hypoxylon, Xylaria polymorpha