College Copse Farm
Sat 20 Sep 2014
Field event ID HF1415
OS Grid areas: SU7155
Weather: Mostly dry after heavy rain several weeks earlier. Recent thunderstorms appear not to have affected this area.
New Records:
New to Hampshire: Gloeocystidiellum clavuligerum, Amanita olivaceogrisea
New to VC12: Tomentella sublilacina, Inocybe ovatocystis
Report: College Copse Farm is a working farm used to house the HWT‘s grazing herd but still has patches of reportedly ancient, damp birch/willow/alder woodland. The dry ground did not encourage the forayers as they walked across the farmland to the woodland. The only excitement being the dense clumps of the ringless Armillaria tabescens growing on dead oak stumps. Once in the woodland, the finds were still sparse but contained several unusual species. Ginny found a "roll-rim" Paxillus rubicundulus under the alder and some gracile Amanitas which turned out to be A. olivaceogrisea under birch/willow. Paul found a group of the small, hairy Phaeomarasmius erinaceus on a willow branch, which get my vote for “find of the day”. Other habitat specific species were Lactarius obscuratus and Hymenoscyphus salicellus found by Mike and Inocybe ovatocystis with its balloon-like cystidia. As has been normal this season, Paul‘s box was soon bulging with resupinates among which were Gloeocystidiellum clavuligerum - a first for Hampshire with only a handful of UK records from Surrey and Hertfordshire, and a couple more for his book; Hyphodontia arguta and Tomentella sublilacina, the latter also new to VC12 and the group.
Species list: Amanita excelsa var. spissa, Amanita muscaria var. muscaria, Amanita olivaceogrisea, Annulohypoxylon multiforme, Armillaria tabescens, Auricularia auricula-judae, Bisporella sulfurina, Bulbillomyces farinosus, Calocera cornea, Calocera pallidospathulata, Clavulina coralloides, Clitocybe gibba, Craterellus cornucopioides, Crepidotus cesatii, Crepidotus variabilis, Cylindrobasidium laeve, Daldinia concentrica, Fuscoporia ferrea, Gloeocystidiellum clavuligerum, Gymnopus dryophilus, Heterobasidion annosum, Hymenochaete corrugata, Hymenochaete rubiginosa, Hymenoscyphus fructigenus, Hymenoscyphus salicellus, Hyphoderma argillaceum, Hyphoderma roseocremeum, Hyphoderma transiens, Hyphodontia arguta, Hypholoma fasciculare var. fasciculare, Hypoxylon fuscum, Inocybe geophylla var. geophylla, Inocybe ovatocystis, Inocybe rimosa, Junghuhnia nitida, Kuehneromyces mutabilis, Laccaria amethystina, Laccaria laccata, Laccaria proxima, Lachnum virgineum, Lacrymaria lacrymabunda, Lactarius obscuratus, Lactarius pyrogalus, Lactarius tabidus, Laetiporus sulphureus, Lycoperdon perlatum, Marasmiellus ramealis, Marasmius wynneae, Megacollybia platyphylla, Mycena acicula, Mycena galericulata, Mycena inclinata, Mycena rorida, Panellus stipticus, Paxillus rubicundulus, Peniophorella pubera, Phaeomarasmius erinaceus, Phallus impudicus var. impudicus, Phlebia tremellosa, Pholiota gummosa, Piptoporus betulinus, Pluteus cervinus, Pluteus phlebophorus, Polyporus leptocephalus, Postia subcaesia, Psathyrella piluliformis, Russula ochroleuca, Russula silvestris, Schizopora paradoxa, Scleroderma verrucosum, Scopuloides rimosa, Scutellinia scutellata, Stereum hirsutum, Stereum subtomentosum, Tomentella sublilacina, Trametes versicolor, Tremella mesenterica, Tricholoma fulvum, Tricholoma stiparophyllum, Tricholomopsis rutilans, Volvariella gloiocephala, Xylaria polymorpha