A nice small muchroom on dead wood in Ross Plantation, Dalgety Bay
Friday 7 December 2018
Tuesday 13 November 2018
Monday 5 November 2018
Almondell CP, West Lothian, 4/11/18
A joint mega-foray of East meets West but partially subeverted into a corticioid rampage (with a minor in fungus related entomology)
Phanerochaete velutinum
Exidiopsis calcea
Kneiffiella subalutacea
Subulocystidium longisporum
Trechispora farinacea
Vuilleminia comedens
Phanerochaete velutinum
being grazed, as were many examples (Cassida sp. larva?) |
Exidiopsis calcea
cf. Hugill p.127 |
Kneiffiella subalutacea
White, granular, visible cystidia |
Hymenium - cystidia and spores in situ on basidia |
Subulocystidium longisporum
White, webby, visible FINE cystidia |
Trechispora farinacea
Vuilleminia comedens
Wednesday 5 September 2018
Giant Funnel, Dalgety Bay, Sep 4th
Wednesday 22 August 2018
Carrifran - Mycena acicula and Hemimycena tortuosa
The orange mycenoid is M.acicula, the white H.tortuosa (dewdrop bonnet)
A few "dewdrops" |
The tortuose caulicystidia that hold the droplets |
Tuesday 21 August 2018
Carrifran Inocybe fuscidula
A few of an Inocybe sp. were picked up at Carrifran Wild Wood
This is the photoset and working that brought me to I.fuscidula (ID confirmed)
Photos:
Genus key
1. Pleurocystidia abundant
3. Spores not nodulose
7. Lower stem not pruinose, not bulbous
8. Smell not noteworthy
9. stem apex pruinose ->) Key I - sect. Tardae
Key I - sect. Tardae
1. Cap - ylw-brown
7. Stem not violaceous
8.9. ... nor pink nor green ...
12. Not arctic/alpine
14. Not shiny/smooth pileus
15. Wrong habitat
16. Cap colour
18.19.20 I.fuscidula
This is the photoset and working that brought me to I.fuscidula (ID confirmed)
Photos:
Habitus |
Gill detail |
Pleuro cy. & basidia (4-spored) |
Apical portion of stipe |
Pleuro cy., 60x17 fusiform, crystals |
Cystidia - width |
Spores 10x6u, brown, amygdaloid |
Cystidia abundant |
Keying in FN |
Genus key
1. Pleurocystidia abundant
3. Spores not nodulose
7. Lower stem not pruinose, not bulbous
8. Smell not noteworthy
9. stem apex pruinose ->) Key I - sect. Tardae
Key I - sect. Tardae
1. Cap - ylw-brown
7. Stem not violaceous
8.9. ... nor pink nor green ...
12. Not arctic/alpine
14. Not shiny/smooth pileus
15. Wrong habitat
16. Cap colour
18.19.20 I.fuscidula
Thursday 22 March 2018
Friday 9 March 2018
Corticioid Capers VI - Dalgety Bay, Ross Plantation, 25/02/2018
A few photies from the session
Brevicellium olivascens
Botryobasidium aureum (conidial stage)
Stypella
Tuesday 27 February 2018
Dalgety Bay Laboulbenia sp.
Found on the elytrae of a carabid beetle (as yet unidentified) was this lovely member of the Laboulbeniales (as yet unidentified). It may be Laboulbenia vulgaris.
Russian source - Biological Encyclopedia (link):
Russian source - Biological Encyclopedia (link):
Tuesday 13 February 2018
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