Shepherds Gutter
Sun 21 Aug 2011
Field event ID HF1116
OS Grid areas: SU2615
Weather: The day was warm and calm with intermittent cloud bringing a couple of light showers early in the foray.
Report: (Mark Jackson/Alan Lucas) We began by heading southeast walking along the woodland edge and following Shepherds Gutter. Not long into the foray Bryan Edwards found a beautifully dark purple specimen of Entoloma lazulinum. Several minutes later Jean-Paul found a patch of velvet tooth (Hydnellum spongiosipes) engulfing grass blades and lesser skullcap (Scutellaria minor). This fungus belongs to the ‘stipitate hydnoids’ commonly known as the ‘tooth fungi’ releasing their spores from tooth like structures. This find was confirmed by Alan as being a new site for this species to the forest. We then headed south crossing an area of grassland before entering woodland, where Sue Lambert found a very hairy bracket fungus on a fallen beech tree. It was time to call in Alan’s expertise, who immediately identified it as Coriolopsis gallica which turned out to be only the second record of this species for the forest ‘well done Sue !’. We briefly lost Bryan, he turned up five minutes later reporting a find of the very tiny fungus (Polydesmia pruinosa)on the stroma of Hypoxylon fragiforme. Sue Rogerson found Hypomyces rosellus, a cobweb mould with a pinkish hue decomposing a fruiting body of Piptoporus betulinus. Towards the end of the foray, a parasite fungus was found by Bryan known as leafy brain (Tremella foliacea) which is parasitic on the mycelium or the fruiting bodies of species in the genus Stereum.
Species list: Amanita citrina var. citrina, Amanita fulva, Amanita rubescens var. rubescens, Annulohypoxylon cohaerens, Aureoboletus gentilis, Biscogniauxia nummularia, Bjerkandera adusta, Boletus aereus, Boletus calopus, Boletus edulis, Boletus radicans, Boletus subtomentosus, Bulgaria inquinans, Calocera cornea, Cantharellus cibarius, Ceriporiopsis gilvescens, Chlorociboria aeruginascens, Clitocybe gibba, Clitopilus prunulus, Coriolopsis gallica, Cortinarius bolaris, Crepidotus applanatus var. applanatus, Crepidotus cesatii, Entoloma chalybeum var. lazulinum, Fistulina hepatica, Ganoderma australe, Gymnopus dryophilus, Gymnopus fusipes, Hydnellum concrescens, Hydnellum spongiosipes, Hydnum repandum, Hypholoma ericaeum, Hypomyces rosellus, Hypoxylon fragiforme, Inonotus cuticularis, Isaria farinosa, Lactarius chrysorrheus, Lactarius ruginosus, Lactarius subdulcis, Lactarius subumbonatus, Lactarius vellereus, Leccinum aurantiacum, Leccinum cyaneobasileucum, Leccinum holopus, Leccinum scabrum, Leccinum scabrum, Leccinum schistophilum, Lentinellus cochleatus, Lycoperdon perlatum, Marasmius oreades, Megacollybia platyphylla, Mycoacia uda, Neobulgaria pura var. pura, Panus conchatus, Phallus impudicus var. impudicus, Phlebia livida, Phragmidium violaceum, Piptoporus betulinus, Pleurotus ostreatus, Pleurotus ostreatus, Pluteus cervinus, Pluteus plautus, Pluteus salicinus, Polydesmia pruinosa, Polyporus leptocephalus, Russula aeruginea, Russula atropurpurea, Russula brunneoviolacea, Russula claroflava, Russula fragilis, Russula nigricans, Russula nobilis, Russula ochroleuca, Russula risigallina, Russula velenovskyi, Russula vesca, Russula virescens, Schizopora paradoxa, Scleroderma citrinum, Scutellinia scutellata, Simocybe sumptuosa, Stereum gausapatum, Stereum hirsutum, Stereum subtomentosum, Trametes gibbosa, Tremella foliacea, Trochila ilicina, Tylopilus felleus