Farley Mount, Hampshire
Sat 31 May 2008
Field event ID HF0805
OS Grid areas: SU5229
Weather: There had been considerable rain in the preceding two which necessitated the closing of Southampton Railway station on one day. The day itself was a beautiful sunny day with clear skies and a few midges in the air honing their biting skills.
Report: The group was enriched once again by some members from Shrooms who as always were very welcome. The grassy slopes of Farley Mount had benefitted from the recent rains by producing some 'little brown jobs' to challenge our skills and also quite an extensive patch of Conocybe apala (formerly lactea) with it's white cap resembling a closed umbrella and orange gills, a species which has been reported from many locations this spring. (I saw it covering the lawns of a house in Lancashire two weeks later.) Agrocybe pediades turned out to be one of the common LBJs present on the slopes. Sara was chuffed to find an ascobolus growing on wood rather than dung and then track it down with a bit of microscope work to A foliicola. Tina found a Phallus impudicus egg which gave the opportunity for newcomers to throw caution to the wind and savour its crunchy centre tasting of broccoli stem!
Species list: Agrocybe pediades, Amylostereum laevigatum, Annulohypoxylon multiforme, Ascobolus foliicola, Auricularia auricula-judae, Biscogniauxia nummularia, Bjerkandera adusta, Byssomerulius corium, Calocera cornea, Calocybe gambosa, Conocybe apala, Crepidotus cesatii, Dacrymyces stillatus, Daedaleopsis confragosa, Daldinia concentrica, Datronia mollis, Dichostereum granulosum, Exidia glandulosa, Exidia thuretiana, Fuscoporia ferrea, Gloeocystidiellum porosum, Hymenochaete corrugata, Hymenochaete rubiginosa, Hypomyces aurantius, Hypoxylon rubiginosum, Junghuhnia nitida, Kretzschmaria deusta, Laetiporus sulphureus, Marasmiellus ramealis, Marasmius rotula, Mycena abramsii, Mycena pelianthina, Neonectria coccinea, Orbilia xanthostigma, Peniophora incarnata, Phallus impudicus var. impudicus, Phanerochaete laevis, Phanerochaete sordida, Phlebiella sulphurea, Phylloporia ribis, Polyporus squamosus, Propolis farinosa, Resinicium bicolor, Scopuloides rimosa, Steccherinum fimbriatum, Stereum hirsutum, Stereum sanguinolentum, Stereum subtomentosum, Subulicystidium longisporum, Trametes gibbosa, Trametes versicolor, Tremella mesenterica, Trichoderma pulvinatum, Vuilleminia comedens, Xylaria hypoxylon, Xylaria longipes