Woods Mill findings

[jimmymac2]

I visited the HQ of the Sussex Wildlife Trust today and I found quite a lot of fungi for this time of year. I was hoping someone could identify these photos or give confirmation?

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[jimmymac2]

One more for you…

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[Chris Yeates]

Hi

Mycena has colourless spores – you have a coprinoid fungus there (dark spored, inky). Hypholoma fasciculare fine. The pyrenomycete on the twig is probably a Hypoxylon or one of the related genera; you would really need to know the host species, details of the asci and spores and what the reaction of the fruitbody with KOH is. The host looks like Corylus in which case it is almost certainly a choice between Hypoxylon fuscum by far the most likely or just possibly the rarely reported (almost certainly overlooked) H. fuscoides which can occur on hazel. This website is extremely useful with xylariaceous fungi:

http://pyrenomycetes.free.fr/

cheers

Chris

[Pitufo]

The second/third photos (labelled Mycena) look like a Parasola (like leiocephala or similar) but they are quite hard to tell apart even with a microscope.

We often find them in abundance on woodchip – this is one which comes up regularly near me http://www.ispotnature.org/node/335751?nav=related

[jimmymac2]

The pyrenomycete on the twig was indeed growing on Hazel, Chris.

[jimmymac2]

Can anyone confirm/identify the glue-type fungus, which is the last photo in the series?

[Flaxton]

I am sure that Hymenochaete corrugata is what you found.

Mal

[jimmymac2]

Thanks Mal for clearing it up!

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