Northington: The Grange
Sun 3 Oct 2010
Field event ID HF1019
OS Grid areas: SU5635 SU5636
Weather: A day of drizzle and light rain changing to bright sunshine.
Report: (Eric Janke) To (mis-)quote the rhetorical sports commentator, it was a foray of two halves. The forayers assembled in the car park in gentle drizzle. Despite the gloomy conditions, Mark found the small, steel-grey Mycena pseudocorticola on a moss-covered trunk. Agaricus moelleri (placomyces) (Inky Mushroom) was prolific as usual and the pear-drop scented Inocybe fraudans was found by the lake. By lunchtime, forayers were fading fast and a much-reduced group proceeded into the larch plantation where regulars, such as Ramaria abietina, Lepista irina (Flowery Blewit) and Geastrum fimbriatum (Sessile Earthstar) were found quickly as well as the diminutive, white Ripartites tricholoma (Bearded Seamine), with its small round verrucose spores. By then the forayers had reduced to JP and Eric and to reward them the sun came out! The second half of the foray was glorious and the brave pair wandered over much more of the site, finding, among other things, Russula graveolens and Boletus luridiformis (Scarletina bolete) under a stand of beeches, Clitopilus hobsonii and Peziza micropus on fallen beech and Pleurotus dryinus (Veiled Oyster) on elder. However, the best site of the day was a pile of wood-chips back in the car park, which had a flush of Stropharia caerulea and a clump of the red-gilled Melanophyllum haematospermum (Redspored Dapperling). One can only presume that the wet prevented us finding them in the morning...
Species list: Agaricus campestris, Agaricus moelleri, Agaricus sylvicola var. sylvicola, Amylostereum laevigatum, Armillaria mellea, Armillaria ostoyae, Auricularia auricula-judae, Bisporella citrina, Bolbitius titubans var. titubans, Boletus luridiformis var. luridiformis, Byssomerulius corium, Calocera cornea, Chlorophyllum rachodes, Chondrostereum purpureum, Clavulina coralloides, Clitocybe nebularis, Clitocybe odora, Clitocybe odora, Clitopilus hobsonii, Coprinellus disseminatus, Coprinellus micaceus, Coprinopsis atramentaria, Coprinus comatus, Corticium roseum, Crepidotus caspari, Crepidotus cesatii, Daedaleopsis confragosa, Daldinia concentrica, Echinoderma asperum, Eichleriella deglubens, Exidia recisa, Fuscoporia ferrea, Ganoderma australe, Geastrum fimbriatum, Geastrum triplex, Gymnopus dryophilus, Gymnopus fusipes, Heterobasidion annosum, Hygrophorus cossus, Hymenochaete corrugata, Hyphodontia sambuci, Inocybe fraudans, Inocybe geophylla var. geophylla, Laccaria amethystina, Laccaria laccata, Lacrymaria lacrymabunda, Laetiporus sulphureus, Lepiota cristata, Lepista flaccida, Lepista irina, Lepista nuda, Lycoperdon pratense, Lycoperdon pyriforme, Marasmius oreades, Marasmius rotula, Marasmius wynneae, Melanoleuca cognata var. cognata, Melanoleuca polioleuca, Melanophyllum haematospermum, Merismodes anomala, Mutinus caninus, Mycena acicula, Mycena arcangeliana, Mycena diosma, Mycena galericulata, Mycena haematopus, Mycena polygramma, Mycena pseudocorticola, Mycena pura, Mycena rosea, Naucoria melinoides, Peniophora laeta, Peniophora proxima, Peziza micropus, Phallus impudicus var. impudicus, Phlebia radiata, Piptoporus betulinus, Pleurotus dryinus, Pluteus cervinus, Pluteus salicinus, Polyporus leptocephalus, Radulomyces confluens, Ramaria abietina, Ramaria stricta, Rhodocollybia butyracea, Ripartites tricholoma, Russula graveolens, Russula nobilis, Schizophyllum commune, Schizopora paradoxa, Spathularia flavida, Stereum hirsutum, Stereum rugosum, Stropharia cyanea, Stropharia pseudocyanea, Suillus grevillei, Tarzetta cupularis, Tremella foliacea, Tremella mesenterica, Tricholoma lascivum, Tricholoma sciodes, Tricholoma sulphureum var. sulphureum, Tricholoma ustale, Volvariella gloiocephala, Vuilleminia alni, Xerula radicata, Xylaria hypoxylon, Xylaria polymorpha