Collybia / Gymnopus maybe ?

[Wood Wanderer]

Afternoon all

Found the attached growing directly under Spruce but very close to Beech and Oak, to me it looks like a lighter coloured, smaller version of Gymnopus dryophilus or something similar.

Can anyone help or point me in the right direction.

Cap: 2 -4 cm, convex becoming flattened, small umbo, margin lined

Stipe: 3 – 4 cm very slightly bulbous at base, hollow and brittle

Gills: adnate / emarginate, white-cream turning to light fawn

Spore print: white

Smell: pleasant, nothing distinctive

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Thanks

John

[Chris Yeates]

Hi John

Did you check exactly what it was growing from? any chance it might have been growing from buried cones?

cheers

Chris

[Chris Yeates]

Hi John

Did you check exactly what it was growing from? any chance it might have been growing from buried cones? Though those stems look rather stout . . . .

cheers

Chris

[Wood Wanderer]

Chris Yeates wrote:

Hi John

Did you check exactly what it was growing from? any chance it might have been growing from buried cones? Though those stems look rather stout . . . .

cheers

Chris

Don’t think so although I must confess to not checking that closely, it was certainly adjacent to spruce cones that are visible in the photo.

I assume you are thinking Strobilurus …I thought that was more of a spring fungus ?

John

[mollisia]

Hello,

did you notice the smell? If they are still fresh, please crash one and have a sniff – I think they are Mycena pura.

best regards,

Andreas

[Ken Burgess]

The gills look too ventricose for Gymnopus (and it isn’t Strobilurus or Baeospora). Mycena pura wouldn’t have occurred to me, but now that Andreas has suggested it, it seems a strong contender.

Ken

[Chris Yeates]

Ken Burgess wrote:

. . . . Mycena pura wouldn’t have occurred to me, but now that Andreas has suggested it, it seems a strong contender.

Ken

Agreed, on the first monitor I viewed it on there wasn’t a trace of pink . . .

Chris

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[Wood Wanderer]

mollisia wrote:

Hello,

did you notice the smell? If they are still fresh, please crash one and have a sniff – I think they are Mycena pura.

best regards,

Andreas

Hello Andreas

Just crushed one and smells just like radish, would never have considered M. pura.

I was not aware how variable M. pura can be, I see some field guides actually list a white form.

Thanks for putting me straight

regards

John

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