Hocombe Mead
Sun 25 Oct 2009
Lactarius turpis
Photo © Paul Hugill
Field event ID HF0918
OS Grid areas: SU4322
Weather: Another dry warm day but was damp underfoot due to some rain earlier in the week.
New Records:
New to HFRG: Basidiodendron eyrei, Cortinarius croceus, Orbilia delicatula
Report: Quite a good turnout this week including one newcomer. This is a new site for the group and so expectations for a mornings foray were high. Due to the rain there were good variety of fungi about including Basidiodendron eyrei new to the group and Lentinellus cochleatus, which has turned up several times this year. Sara found Sebacina epigaea which is the second record for the group- both of them this year. Sara and Tina tried to interest a local dog walker into the world of fungi, by getting him to smell the Tricholoma sulphureum – unfortunately he was not impressed! But then the group were not impressed either, by the smell of the dog poo littering the ground.
Note (SJS): According to the Basidio checklist 'Cortinarius paleaceus is a nomen dubium lacking type material and variously applied to any of the species with a smell of Pelargonium'. B&K and Funga Nordica have the two species which smell of pelargonium - Cortinarius flexipes var. flexipes and C flexipes var. flabellus. Alan and I have assigned the species found at Hocombe to the former which is white scaly all over thc cap not just at the margin.
Species list: Amanita citrina var. citrina, Amanita fulva, Armillaria mellea, Ascocoryne cylichnium, Auricularia auricula-judae, Basidiodendron eyrei, Boletus badius, Boletus cisalpinus, Boletus pruinatus, Byssomerulius corium, Calocera cornea, Cantharellus tubaeformis, Chlorociboria aeruginascens, Chondrostereum purpureum, Chromocyphella muscicola, Coprinellus micaceus, Coprinus comatus, Cortinarius croceus, Cortinarius flexipes var. flexipes, Cortinarius hemitrichus, Cortinarius mucifluoides, Crepidotus applanatus var. applanatus, Crepidotus cesatii, Dacrymyces stillatus, Daedaleopsis confragosa, Fuscoporia ferrea, Ganoderma australe, Gymnopus fusipes, Hypholoma fasciculare var. fasciculare, Hypocrea gelatinosa, Inocybe geophylla var. geophylla, Inocybe sindonia, Laccaria amethystina, Laccaria laccata, Lactarius blennius, Lactarius pyrogalus, Lactarius quietus, Lactarius subdulcis, Lactarius torminosus, Lactarius turpis, Lactarius vietus, Leccinum holopus, Leccinum scabrum, Lentinellus cochleatus, Lepiota cristata, Macrotyphula fistulosa var. contorta, Marasmiellus ramealis, Mycena arcangeliana, Mycena corynephora, Mycena epipterygia, Mycena galericulata, Mycena haematopus, Mycena inclinata, Mycena polygramma, Mycena pseudocorticola, Mycena rorida, Mycena vitilis, Orbilia delicatula, Panellus stipticus, Paxillus involutus, Peniophora quercina, Phallus impudicus var. impudicus, Phanerochaete sordida, Phanerochaete velutina, Phlebia radiata, Phleogena faginea, Physisporinus sanguinolentus, Piptoporus betulinus, Pluteus cervinus, Psathyrella piluliformis, Rhodocollybia butyracea, Russula atropurpurea, Russula betularum, Russula fragilis var. fragilis, Russula nigricans, Russula nobilis, Russula ochroleuca, Russula rosea, Russula versicolor, Schizopora paradoxa, Scleroderma citrinum, Sebacina epigaea, Stereum hirsutum, Stereum rugosum, Subulicystidium longisporum, Tomentella bryophila, Trametes gibbosa, Trametes versicolor, Tricholoma fulvum, Tricholoma sulphureum var. sulphureum, Tricholomopsis rutilans, Typhula erythropus, Vuilleminia comedens, Xylaria hypoxylon