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  • January 7, 2017 at 6:08 pm #30550
    Flaxton
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      Out looking for the Scarlet Elf Cap (which I found) and I came across a small group of these white/ivory fungi growing under the canopy of a couple of taxus in the middle of a mixed woodland.

      Slightly greasy cap and no smell. Is it likely to be Hygrocye virginea (Cuphophyllus virgineus) just in the wrong place or one of the Hygrophorus sp. very few of which are mycorrhizal with conifer and non that I can see with Taxus?

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      Mal

      January 7, 2017 at 6:11 pm #39692
      Flaxton
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        The Sarcoscypha is immature so I can’t even put a name to that yet.

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        Mal

        January 8, 2017 at 7:03 am #39693
        Fenwickfield

          Flaxton wrote:

          Out looking for the Scarlet Elf Cap (which I found) and I came across a small group of these white/ivory fungi growing under the canopy of a couple of taxus in the middle of a mixed woodland.

          Slightly greasy cap and no smell. Is it likely to be Hygrocye virginea (Cuphophyllus virgineus) just in the wrong place or one of the Hygrophorus sp. very few of which are mycorrhizal with conifer and non that I can see with Taxus?

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          Thanks

          Mal


          It does say in Boertmann’s book on Hygrocybe that they occur in all types of unimproved grassland,scrubs,road verges and occasionally in deciduous or coniferous woodland I used to find a couple each year in a grass at the edge of a Norway spruce (Picea abies) and Sikka spruce (Picea sitchensis) area hope this is useful.

          Sheila

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