Giant Funnel, Dalgety Bay, Sep 4th

Leucopaxillus giganteus, an amazing mushroom which has fruits to more than 30cm in diameter. About 100 fruit bodies in several rings in Ross Plantation, Dalgety Bay

Ring

One mushroom to top left!

Dalgety Bay Weeping Mary

Glamourshot style

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

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:

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

Trimmatostroma salicis, Dalgety Bay, 21/03/18

On Salix sp. in the wet area of Ross Plantation

Corticioid Capers VI - Dalgety Bay, Ross Plantation, 25/02/2018

A few photies from the session

Brevicellium olivascens

Botryobasidium aureum (conidial stage)

Stypella

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):