Hillier Gardens
Sat 20 Sep 2008
Rhodocybe gemina
Photo © Stuart Skeates
Field event ID HF0817
OS Grid areas: SU3723
Weather: At long last a warm summer's day following a week of fairly dry weather.
New Records:
New to Hampshire: Postia hibernica, Lepiota ochraceofulva
New to HFRG: Paxillus vernalis
Report: The warm weather and a new site produced a flush of forayers including two new members Patrick and Wei Yu all hoping for exotic goodies.The group was grateful to Allen Coombes and Hilliers for arranging our visit and welcoming us to the grounds. Not long after we started near a fine display of Lepiota aspera ( freesii or acutosquamosa!!) Alan picked up a Paxillus with a thick rolled edge and thick stem which later dropped a lilac spore print and was confirmed as P vernalis. (See Field Mycology Vol 9(1) Jan 2008). This is third UK record we know about but more may well appear as soon as we look at Paxillus involutus in a new light especially in garden borders. Eric came up with another orange brown lepiota that seem to glow in the sunlight. This was tracked down to L ochraceofulva by Stuart, a new species for Hampshire. A clump of huge tall Laccaria growing in long grass had everyone excited for a while but they were just a very large L laccata. Just before lunch an active hornet's nest provided a photo opportunity for the brave, a nearby resting dragonfly was a safer option for the faint hearted. After lunch, under a row of oaks, Roger and Jacquey simultaneously found clusters of Otidea onotica and a few yards away was an Amanita looking like vaginata but is still defying final identification. (It does not have the globose spores of the vaginata group). Sue found a poroid on a Pinus twig that turned out to be Postia hibernica the days's second new species for Hampshire. Rhodocybe truncata with is warty pink spores (now called gemina) turned up again in the arboretum having been found by Graham Mattock previously.
Species list: Agaricus augustus, Agaricus sylvicola, Amanita excelsa var. spissa, Amanita fulva, Ampulloclitocybe clavipes, Armillaria tabescens, Bjerkandera adusta, Bolbitius reticulatus, Boletus badius, Boletus chrysenteron, Boletus edulis, Botryobasidium subcoronatum, Calocera cornea, Calocera viscosa, Chalciporus piperatus, Chlorophyllum rachodes, Clavulina coralloides, Clitopilus prunulus, Coprinopsis atramentaria, Coprinus comatus, Crepidotus mollis, Cystoderma amianthinum, Cystolepiota seminuda, Daedaleopsis confragosa, Diplomitoporus lindbladii, Echinoderma asperum, Fistulina hepatica, Flagelloscypha minutissima, Fuscoporia ferrea, Ganoderma australe, Geastrum striatum, Geastrum triplex, Gymnopus dryophilus, Hebeloma pusillum, Helvella lacunosa, Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca, Hypholoma fasciculare var. fasciculare, Inocybe geophylla var. lilacina, Laccaria amethystina, Laccaria laccata, Laccaria tortilis, Lacrymaria lacrymabunda, Lactarius deliciosus, Lactarius subumbonatus, Lenzites betulina, Lepiota cristata, Lepiota ochraceofulva, Lepista flaccida, Lycoperdon nigrescens, Lycoperdon perlatum, Marasmius oreades, Marasmius rotula, Melanoleuca exscissa var. exscissa, Mycena diosma, Mycena pelianthina, Mycena pura, Mycena tenerrima, Nectria cinnabarina, Otidea onotica, Oudemansiella mucida, Panellus stipticus, Paxillus involutus, Paxillus vernalis, Peniophora quercina, Phaeolus schweinitzii, Pholiota gummosa, Physisporinus vitreus, Postia hibernica, Postia ptychogaster, Postia subcaesia, Rhodocollybia butyracea, Rhodocollybia maculata, Rhodocybe gemina, Russula albonigra, Russula chloroides, Russula farinipes, Russula ochroleuca, Russula pseudointegra, Russula sardonia, Schizopora paradoxa, Scleroderma areolatum, Scleroderma citrinum, Scleroderma verrucosum, Scutellinia scutellata, Simocybe centunculus var. centunculus, Stereum hirsutum, Stereum sanguinolentum, Stereum subtomentosum, Stropholoma aurantiacum, Suillus luteus, Trametes gibbosa, Trametes versicolor, Tricholoma fulvum, Tricholomopsis rutilans, Volvariella gloiocephala, Vuilleminia comedens, Xerula radicata