Brookwood Cemetery & Stoke Wood
Sun 14 Sep 2008
Field event ID HF0816
OS Grid areas: SU4419
Weather: It was a nice warm and dry day.
New Records:
New to HFRG: Geastrum floriforme
Report: (Alan Lucas) Cemeteries can be good sites for grassland species and Brookwood produced a few Hygrocybes along with a couple of Clavarias even though a bit early in the year for them. This site is home to the rare Amanita inopinata which we were hoping to see as a rather poor specimen had been seen the day before but we drew a blank. At the resting place of a Mr Coffin we found the rare Geastrum floriforme and the more common Geastrum striatum, both of which were there in good numbers. It was at this point that Chris Roberts came along holding a dull brown capped fungus that held a surprise underneath with it's strikingly red gills, it was Melanophyllum haematospermum a species of disturbed ground and was deemed the find of the day. A good number of Lepiota speices were collected and taken away for microscopic examination including Lepiota lilacea a cemetery specialist!
Species list: Agaricus arvensis, Arachnopeziza aranea, Boletus pruinatus, Chlorophyllum rachodes, Clavaria fragilis, Clavaria fumosa, Clavulinopsis corniculata, Clavulinopsis helvola, Echinoderma echinaceum, Geastrum floriforme, Geastrum striatum, Gliophorus irrigatus, Gliophorus psittacinus, Gymnopus dryophilus, Hygrocybe chlorophana, Hygrocybe conica, Hygrocybe flavipes, Hygrocybe pratensis, Hypholoma fasciculare, Inocybe cincinnata var. cincinnata, Inocybe geophylla, Laccaria laccata, Lacrymaria lacrymabunda, Lepiota castanea, Lepiota lilacea, Lepista nuda, Marasmius oreades, Melanoleuca exscissa, Melanophyllum haematospermum, Parasola plicatilis, Rickenella fibula, Scleroderma verrucosum