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Thanks Peter, appreciated. Is e.conferendum the only entoloma with such shaped spores? or are there any others that I should look at. Thanks Adam, looks a good bet. Ticks many boxes re size and colour of cap, the pale wooly scales below an indistinct ring zone and the size and shape of the spores. Im further won over by its appropriate common name – the slimy scalycap. Appreciate the input, thanks. Thanks Adam. Whoops, relooking at my notes you are indeed correct that the spores were brown, my notes said concolourous with the cap. (I put a drop of Melzer’s reagent on white spore slides and thought that was why the spore colour through the microscope had that colouring). Helps explain my lack of luck with the Tricholoma genus (noted), and I know from past experience that as a Cortinarius, an identification becomes a whole lot more challenging. Apologies.
As to the spores, I would certainly suggest they are smooth – the camera that slips into the lens isn’t that great, but I attach another photo of the spores this time with a bit of oil and at 1000x magnification.
Thanks for the help
Thanks Chris and Gary, greatly appreciate the input. H.Acutoconica looks good from the perspective of spore dimensions but I cant find much related to it blackening. Olivaceonigra also ticks a number of boxes from the macro characteristics as described on Fungi of Great Britain and Ireland (
http://fungi.myspecies.info/all-fungi/hygrocybe-olivaceonigra Im afraid I didn’t dry or keep the fruitbody. If its possible to extract DNA from spores, I still have the slide and would be more than willing to send that away.
thanks and regards Andrew
Thanks Adam, yes I will need to start getting to grips with microscoping features beyond spores, alas no gill specimen here. I was put off Clitocybe gibba on account of how thin the flesh of this specimen was. Thanks for the input and I will add iodine to my growing collection of chemicals. Thanks PMG, c. anamolous ticks a few boxes and I recall that conditions were dry that week. I also contemplated c. alboviolaceus on account of the gill edges – Fungi of Temperate Europe pointing to the serated pale edges of this species. Thanks for the suggestion. mmmm…..that sounds very much like running before you can walk. The cap I still have, or a very shrunken, dried version of it. Would that still work for taking a sample? Thanks again Mike for taking the time and responding. Wikipedia summarising “There has been some confusion between L. ceres, which has a fairly thick white stem, and L. squamosus var. thaustus, which has a slender stem and prominent scales below the ring zone (although the two taxa are quite easy to distinguish by sight). Around 1885 Mordecai Cubitt Cooke originated the names Agaricus squamosus f. aurantiacus and Agaricus thraustus var. aurantiacus, and this later gave rise to the name Stropharia aurantiaca.[5] This name is defined by Cooke’s illustration to his Handbook of British Fungi and in 2004 Richard Fortey discovered that this illustration was not of L. ceres, as had generally been assumed,[3] but it was L. squamosus var. thaustus.[6] Thanks Mike Good call. I had skipped it in the guides on account of differences in the thickness of both cap and stipe, but as you state, a google search highlights many similar looking fungi. Interesting the association with sand. We have very little around us here, and I had believed the spot where this one was found was only sandy on account of it being dumped here to help with drainage as its the lowest point on a pathway through Durford Woods. Will report back when I have examined under microscope. Thanks again
I have been procrastinating for ages on going to the next level…..does anyone know what the minimum spend is for a microscope capable of doing what needs to be done, or have good reviews of any recent such purchase Thanks Mike, and a shame indeed. Distinctive enough where it probably didn’t need to be picked. I might need to buy a little dentist’s mirror.
