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  • August 1, 2015 at 6:24 pm #29595
    adampembs
    Keymaster

      All found under birch. Any suggestions before I do some microscopy.

      Sizes are in cap diameter

      top 85mm

      2nd 15mm

      3rd 90mm

      4th 40mm

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      August 1, 2015 at 9:05 pm #35523
      Chris Yeates

        Hi Adam

        #2 I think is Gymnopus confluens (spores should be elongated tear-shaped)

        #3 is surely an Amanita; why not A. crocea? spores more or less globose; might you have overlooked a volva?

        #4 is that bluey-green flush actual or an artefact? any noticeable smell?

        cheers

        Chris

        August 1, 2015 at 9:38 pm #35524
        roy betts

          Top one looks like dear old Megacollybia platyphylla.

          August 1, 2015 at 10:43 pm #35525
          adampembs
          Keymaster

            Chris Yeates wrote:

            Hi Adam

            #2 I think is Gymnopus confluens (spores should be elongated tear-shaped)

            #3 is surely an Amanita; why not A. crocea? spores more or less globose; might you have overlooked a volva?

            #4 is that bluey-green flush actual or an artefact? any noticeable smell?

            cheers

            Chris

            I’m sure you’re right about #2. I dug really deep with my knife, with loads of roots interfering. Unlike the one I found the other day where the volva was plain to see, I think I found a trace of decayed volva around one of them, but it was quite broken down.

            #4 There is a faint aniseed/fruity smell. The flush is an artifact, it is mostly a pure white with the centre slightly shiny. I was thinking Clitocybe sp.

            August 1, 2015 at 10:43 pm #35526
            adampembs
            Keymaster

              roy betts wrote:

              Top one looks like dear old Megacollybia platyphylla.

              Thanks :)

              August 2, 2015 at 1:59 pm #35527
              adampembs
              Keymaster

                More on the white ‘Clitocybe’

                Spores

                My spore print was quite weak, but not white, perhaps a creamy pink?

                Spores were 11-14 x 5-6.5µm and negative to Melzers.

                Pileipellis

                Is there a photographic guide to pileipellis types? I find the diagrams in FN unhelpful as nothing looks like them. So from descriptions in “How to identify mushrooms to genus III”, I assume this is a trichoderm.

                In the key to genus in FN 2012, I get to key D #153 which says “Pileipellis a cutis or a trichoderm with or without an ixocutis, cap tomentose or with radial hyphae (lens). The trouble is, it looks like a trichoderm, but I would say the cap was smooth and without radial hyphae. Can anyone help with this?

                August 2, 2015 at 3:45 pm #35528
                Chris Yeates

                  Hi Adam

                  look at those ridged spores . . . . pinkish . . . . it’s surely Clitopilus prunulus

                  Chris

                  August 2, 2015 at 4:12 pm #35529
                  adampembs
                  Keymaster

                    Ah ! thanks :D

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