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I didn’t suggest that Boertmann’s book was gospel. I was talking about the likelihood that you would get fading from the typical scarlet colours to the yellow we see in the picture. You said yourself that some species typically fade and others tend not to. In Boertmann’s view, the colours are “rather constant”. Hygrocybe splendidissima is not a common species so my experience is limited. But when I have found it, it has always been bright red in colour. So I would turn the issue around. To demonstrate that you have found a relatively uncommon species you need sound evidence. I don’t see the evidence here. For example, where are the examples of yellow capped H. splendidissima that contradict Boertmann’s findings? Other than a suggestion that the smell of the dried mushroom might have been of honey, there is no strong basis for suggesting this is H. splendidissima rather than something else. I am not putting a name to it. You have made a suggestion. I don’t see the evidence to back this up.
Ken
For Hygrocybe splendidissima, Boertmann say that it “shows a considerable variation in size and shape of the fruitbodies, but the colours are rather constant”. I have only found H. splendidissima a few times but it has always been bright red in colour. I think it is unlikely that you would get fading to the yellow colour we see here. I agree with Chris that this one is beyond identification, certainly without microscopy. If we didn’t have information on the smell, I would have thought this this was likely to be H. quieta, given the gill attachment and the paler yellow of the cap, contrasting with the orange gills and stem. The cap typically fades when dried out.
But I think it is a lost cause.
Ken
Wood Wanderer wrote:
When did that happen😮 😯 I have enough trouble with the small white mycena types without even more confusion.
Just done a Google search and NIL results so guess it must be recent
John
Try googling as per the spelling in the title of this thread i.e. Phloeomana.
Ken
Just seen that my post overlapped with that of Andreas. My advice that it requires a specialist to investigate this still stands because the extent of the existing rot will have to be investigated and remedial action taken. Ken
Your picture shows a fruiting body with a wrinkled or ‘merulioid’ fertile surface. It looks to me like Serpula lacrymans or dry rot. Try googling some images of this species to see the likeness.
The fungus itself grows in damp wood and can then spread to dry wood, causing lots of damage.
I would advise you to get a specialist in to sort this out.
Good luck.
Ken
From Fungi of Northern Europe volume 2: ‘Lactarius decipiens is easily recognized by the pinkish colours, the yellowing milk and the smell of Pelargonium.’ As you said there was no distinctive smell, this doesn’t seem a likely option. The overall colours of cap stem and gills look wrong too because they should have pinkish tones. The most likely candidate with hot tasting milk and growing with hazel would be Lactarius pyrogalus, but I don’t think the milk would stain yellow on a hanky. The milk turns greenish-grey on drying.
Ken
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
Hi Leif I agree it does look a good fit for Clitocybe houghtonii and that is where I would key it out to using Funga Nordica on the information available (via Key C based on very pale pinkish spore print).
Ken
Yes, even though you didn’t show the classic spines on the fertile surface, this can only be Pseudohydnum gelatinosum. Ken
Hi Steve I think you are in the right area with Clitocybe but this does not look like C. vibecina to me. Also, C. vibecina should have a distinctive smell. Smells can be critical in determining these small hygrophanous species in Clitocybe. Ideally you also need to know the colour of the spore deposit to key them out.
I think it is more likely to be something like Clitocybe agrestis, but there are several similar species which can be tricky to separate.
Ken
PS I thought the jury was still out on the ectomycorrhizal relationships of Hygrocybe.
