Lovely yellow and red fungi

[annie]

Hiya all,

Thanks for your previous help. I was wondering if someone may be able to help me with this lovely fungi.

Found in open mossy grassland, in Surrey, at first the colour suggested Sulphur Tuft to me, but everything else is all wrong!

Approx 3cm cap diameter, cap was dry and slightly felty, no obvious smell (please excuse the Clitocybe trying to muscle in on the last picture!) I’m struggling to pin it down at all, so any help gratefully received.

Thanks!

[Chris Yeates]

Hi

I would be looking at Gomphidius glutinosus, though not very glutinous in this case – compare with http://www.fungusfactfriday.com/178-gomphidiaceae/” class=”bbcode_url”>http://www.fungusfactfriday.com/178-gomphidiaceae/

Actually only the shot showing the gills and their attachment to the stem – decurrent – is the one on which I based this suggestion. We usually need to see these sort of characters. (And there is a specimen of Armillaria in the background of that shot as well).

Regards

Chris

btw we would normally say “this fungus” even if we were talking about several specimens of the same species, “fungi” for several different species.

[annie]

Thanks Chris, and thanks for the link. I’m going to try and find another example next week and have a closer look at the characteristics and spore print.

Fungi taxonomy duly noted. I’m still very green to identification but very enthusiastic, I’m fascinated by the breadth of fungi to be found and their characteristics. And a stroll to the shed can suddenly become an exciting adventure in identification (my first bearded milk cap last week!)

Thanks again!

[Lancashire Lad]

Hi,

If, since they are said to be dry/slightly felty, and (with a stretch of the imagination!), because of the shape of that particular fruitbody’s cap, the gills could be said to be adnate/notched, rather than decurrent, might these be Hypholoma lateritium (Brick Cap)?

The cap colour is spot on, and the stipes are pale towards apex, changing to brown/red towards the base, which would also suit. (Rather than the yellowish stem base that might be expected of G.glutinosus?).

I may be way off the mark, but H.lateritium was my “gut feeling” on initial glance at the photos.

Although, growing in open mossy grassland, they don’t appear to be in the right sort of habitat for either of the suggestions so far?

Spore print colour would be useful – but between the two species unless you have a good eye for colour, even that might be problematical.

Spore print for G.glutinosus will be dark red to brown, and that of H.lateritium more of a purple-ish brown.

Regards,

Mike.

[annie]

Thanks Mike!

I’ll do some investigation based on both your suggestions and see if anything rings all bells in terms of habitat / geography/ characteristics. But sounds like a spore print would definitely be really useful.

Thanks again!

[Chris Yeates]

Brick Cap was my first thought too, but with no hint of veil remnants on the cap, that gill attachment, colour and also the number of gills (they are very crowded in H. lateritium) I ruled it out – those gills are decurrent, right down to the veil remains on the stem.

Also you have a spore print, on that very veil – compare that to the image I linked to, they are very similar.

Best Chris

[annie]

Aah ok brilliant! I always assumed you needed to take a spore print, but now can see it!

There are Scots pine about 30m away, mowed with the same mower. Is it possible for spores to be spread in this way? Even if not directly near the ectomycorrhizal tree?

This is all great stuff, so thank you for sharing and your patience with an amateur!

Annie

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