Nices Hill and Broomy Inclosure
Sat 28 Nov 2009
Chromocyphella muscicola
Photo © Stuart Skeates
Field event ID HF0924
OS Grid areas: SU1911 SU2011
Weather: Following a further frost free and damp week the day itself was fine and dry.
New Records:
New to Britain: Chloroscypha cryptomeriae
New to Hampshire: Physalacria cryptomeriae, Chrysomphalina grossula
New to VC11: Otidea leporina
Report: Wow, what an end of season day with a new record for Britain and two new records for Hampshire. The grassy slopes of Nices Hill and surrounding area lived up to its reputation by producing another crop of stunning finds. Microglossum olivaceum was growing well on its usual patch on the initial slopes along with Dermoloma, Hygrocybe and Clavarioid species. Not long after Eric presented us with a fungus with a grey cap and stem and white decurrent gills which we thought we had seen in the books but couldn't name. Subsequent work points to Hygrophorus camarophyllus, a species with very few previous records but including one previous 1991 record by Phil Budd in the New Forest. The highspot of the day has to be in Broomy Inclosure when we hit a hot spot with some fine specimens of Pseudohydnum gelatinosum and Tricholoma saponaceum but then Alan fulfilled a six year hunt of Cryptomeria japonica (Japanese red-cedar) leaves to find Physalacria cryptomeriae which has only two other British sites. On the same frond was a dark greenish black discomycete which Brian Spooner has said is Chloroscypha cryptomeriae, a first British record. The last new Hampshire record was found by Jean-Paul at the same spot, a lovely pale yellow green omphaloid species, Chrysomphalina grossula.
Species list: Amanita citrina var. citrina, Amanita gemmata, Amanita rubescens var. rubescens, Baeospora myosura, Bjerkandera adusta, Boletus badius, Boletus luridiformis var. luridiformis, Boletus pruinatus, Byssomerulius corium, Calocera cornea, Calocera viscosa, Chloroscypha cryptomeriae, Chondrostereum purpureum, Chromocyphella muscicola, Chrysomphalina grossula, Clavaria acuta, Clavaria fragilis, Clavulina rugosa, Clavulinopsis corniculata, Clavulinopsis helvola, Clavulinopsis luteoalba, Clitocybe fragrans, Clitocybe geotropa, Clitocybe nebularis, Coniophora arida, Coprinellus micaceus, Cordyceps capitata, Cordyceps militaris, Cortinarius anomalus, Cortinarius sanguineus, Crepidotus cesatii, Crepidotus luteolus, Cylindrobasidium laeve, Cyphella ferruginea, Cystoderma amianthinum, Cystoderma jasonis, Dacrymyces stillatus, Daedaleopsis confragosa, Dermoloma cuneifolium, Diatrype bullata, Exidia recisa, Fuscoporia ferrea, Ganoderma australe, Geoglossum umbratile, Gliophorus laetus, Gliophorus psittacinus, Glutinoglossum glutinosum, Gymnopilus penetrans, Heterobasidion annosum, Hydnum rufescens, Hygrocybe chlorophana, Hygrocybe conica, Hygrocybe pratensis var. pratensis, Hygrocybe reidii, Hygrocybe russocoriacea, Hygrocybe virginea var. virginea, Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca, Hygrophorus camarophyllus, Hymenochaete corrugata, Hypholoma fasciculare var. fasciculare, Hypocrea rufa, Laccaria amethystina, Laccaria laccata, Lactarius chrysorrheus, Lactarius hepaticus, Lactarius quietus, Lactarius subdulcis, Lactarius subumbonatus, Lenzites betulina, Lepista nuda, Leucogyrophana mollusca, Lyophyllum decastes, Megacollybia platyphylla, Merismodes anomala, Microglossum olivaceum, Mycena epipterygia, Mycena haematopus, Mycena pura, Otidea leporina, Panellus stipticus, Paxillus involutus, Peniophora quercina, Phellinus igniarius, Phellinus pomaceus, Phlebia radiata, Phlebia tremellosa, Pholiota gummosa, Physalacria cryptomeriae, Piptoporus betulinus, Polydesmia pruinosa, Postia caesia, Postia ptychogaster, Psathyrella piluliformis, Pseudohydnum gelatinosum, Resinicium bicolor, Resupinatus trichotis, Rhodocollybia butyracea, Rickenella fibula, Rickenella swartzii, Russula atropurpurea, Russula caerulea, Russula cyanoxantha, Russula fragilis var. fragilis, Russula nigricans, Russula ochroleuca, Russula sanguinaria, Sarcomyxa serotina, Schizopora paradoxa, Scleroderma citrinum, Skeletocutis vulgaris, Sparassis crispa, Stereum gausapatum, Stereum hirsutum, Stereum rugosum, Stereum sanguinolentum, Trametes versicolor, Tremella mesenterica, Trichaptum abietinum, Tricholoma saponaceum var. saponaceum, Tricholoma sulphureum var. sulphureum, Tricholomopsis rutilans, Xylaria hypoxylon