Slimy brown fungi with greyish stem

[annie]

Hiya guys,

I’d really appreciate some help with this one. I found several of these brown fungi this morning, the caps seemed especially slimy after the rain, stem browny grey and fibrous. Largest approx 7cm across, found under Scots Pine in Surrey.

Spore print is creamy buff. I thought perhaps Melanoleuca melaleuca but the description doesn’t mention being slimy when wet.

Last pic is of the cap after it’d dried for about 30mins.

Thanks in advance!

Annie

[Lancashire Lad]

Amongst pine would be an unusual place to find Melanoleuca melaleuca. – It’s more of a grassland species.

Did you do a spore print? – Should be pale cream colour: –

NB: I find that doing spore prints on microscope slides gives best results as you can then put different coloured paper behind the print so as to better see it.

When determining colour, the spore print should be scraped together into a small pile, and then pressed flat to give a solid colour to work from. (Using the edge of another microscope slide for this, and then pressing the pile between two microscope slides is ideal)”

Regards,

Mike.

[adampembs]

More likely to be Melanoleuca polioleuca, which is commonly seen with pines. The slimy cap though is odd, it should be slightly greasy when wet rather than slimy. https://www.first-nature.com/fungi/melanoleuca-polioleuca.php

[annie]

Thanks guys! Cream spore print seems to match up. I may have mistaken greasy for slimy as it was pelting down, and there were Slippery Jacks I was also investigating nearby.

Thanks again for all your input, it’s really valuable.

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