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A Purple brittlegill that actually purple ? And an unknown blue fungi

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  • November 5, 2021 at 8:13 pm #32225
    irturner

      Was in a Woodland reserve in NW Leicestershire today and found the following pair in the small patch of land between the carpark and it’s entry and exit tracks. Found most of the interesting stuff without leaving the carpark.

      It’s a mixed deciduous woodland mainly.

      The first is visibly purple but most of the Purple brittlegills I find are dark red and dark in the centre so is this just a particularly purple example ? The smaller example in the third picture within about a foot looks more typical and there were others within 6 feet showing red to black.

      The second fungi I have been unable to find a match for at all. Given it’s colour I decided to smell it to determine that it didn’t smell of aniseed which it didn’t and if it had a smell it wasn’t strong enough to be detected above that of rotting leaves.

      November 6, 2021 at 11:52 am #44480
      adampembs
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        Russulas can be quite host specific, so host tree is needed.

        Also essential is taste, any smells, and colour of spore print.

        The other fungUS (you cannot have “a fungi”) is a bit of a mystery. What type of gill attachment did it have? What was the base like?

        November 6, 2021 at 2:35 pm #44481
        irturner

          Unfortunately they were under a patch of bramble , some of which decided to entangle itself in my hair, so getting a non mirror shot of the underneath of this blueish fungus was not realistic especially given it’s relatively short stem. This was the only visible example of this fungus in that patch and I leave fungi for other people to find though I don’t rate the odds of that particularly high.

          Attached a picture showing the brittlegill amongst leaves and would say it’s under the branches of a hawthorn but the leaves indicate birch and oak and an oak would be about 6-10 feet away.

          Considering Charcoal burner due to the oak and a search throwing up purple examples of that.

          Taste test ? I won’t be mentioning the orangey brown milkcaps with visible milk drops in the same patch then. :D

          November 6, 2021 at 2:50 pm #44482
          adampembs
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            irturner wrote:

            Taste test ? I won’t be mentioning the orangey brown milkcaps with visible milk drops in the same patch then. :D

            Unfortunately, both Lactarius and Russula depend heavily on taste and lots of other characters to get a confident ID.

            Russulas are highly variable in colour, I’m afraid. There are a lot of species that can be purple. Perhaps this key to purple Russulas in Kibby’s book will reveal the issue. The master synoptic key shows what we need.

            November 6, 2021 at 5:35 pm #44483
            irturner

              Went back to see if I could get better photos of the mystery blue fungus.

              Came in from a different angle and after scratching the stump it was attached to removed the stone it wasn’t attached to and

              found it was attached to the small piece of wood, no more than 2″ in length, at it’s base and had similar blue markings towards the base of it’s stem.

              It’s positioned exactly mid way between a small oak and larger silver birch which has a hawthorn at its base.

              November 6, 2021 at 7:37 pm #44484
              Peter Roberts

                Your green fungus with orange tints looks to me like Lepiota grangei, which is a nice thing to find. Not that common a species.

                November 6, 2021 at 9:13 pm #44485
                irturner

                  Thanks that looks right though mainly from the stem markings and description as the pictures otherwise are few and mainly brown.

                  Mind you it didn’t smell of anything but then maybe I didn’t get close enough.

                  I seem to have been lucky to find such a distinctively coloured one.

                  First natures suggestions for possible confusion seem bizarre as wood blewitt is entirely different but then they proposed Chicken of the woods for Dyer’s mazegill.

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